Bernadotte Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

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This is the third of 3 posts on beautiful libraries. This post contains the following countries: Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA and Wales.

Bernadotte Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Beatus Rhenanus Library, Basel, Switzerland

Abbey Library, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK

George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore House Library, Asheville, USA

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA

North Reading Room, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

Boston Athenæum, Boston, USA

Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA

Widener Library, Harvard, Cambridge, USA

Harper Library, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Old Chicago Public Library (Current Cultural Center), Chicago, USA

Law Library, Iowa State Legislature, Des Moines, USA

Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA

Cornell Law School Library, Ithaca, USA

Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, USA

Amelia S. Givin Library, Mount Holly Springs, USA

Jay Walker’s Private Library, New England, USA

Sterling Memorial Library Yale, New Haven, USA

Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, USA

New York City Public Library, New York, USA

The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Northeast Vermont, USA

Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, USA

The Grolier Club Library, NY, USA

Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA

Thomas Crane Library, Quincy, USA

Central Library, Seattle, USA

Suzzallo Library, Seattle, USA

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA

Library of Congress, Washington, USA

University of Michigan (Old) Law Library, Ann Arbor, USA

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales

I want to thank the following sites for all the pictures that I have used in the last 3 posts :

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www.kuhf.org
www.stopin-praha.cz
www.flickr.com
www.wikimedia.org
www.curiousexpeditions.org
www.chicagobooth.edu
www.wired.com
www.esquire.com
wiz2.cath.vt.edu

Bad Schussenried Bibliothekssaal, Baden-Württemberg, [...]]]>

This is the second of 3 posts on beautiful libraries. This post contains the following countries: Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Scotland and Spain.

Bad Schussenried Bibliothekssaal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany

Library of the Prussian King Frederic the Second in Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Wiblingen Monastary Library, Ulm, Germany

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar II, Weimar, Germany

Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary

National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Trinity College Library aka The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence, Italy

Biblioteca Di Bella Arti, Milan, Italy

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Casanatense Library, Rome, Italy

Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy

Vatican Library Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico

Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Maastricht, Holanda, Maastricht, Netherlands

Dutch Royal Archives Library, The Hague, Netherlands

Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands

Library of St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherlands

Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Joanina Library University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Biblioteca do Pala?cio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal

Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal

Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Mafra, Portugal

Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal

Russian National Library, St. Petersburg, Russia

The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Rennie Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Biblioteca Castilla, La Mancha, Spain

Biblioteca de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain

Salamanca Library, Salamanca, Spain

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

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