Librophiliac: Libraries/ Bookstores

Wednesday, September 22, 2010



I am a confessed Librophiliac- below is my personal version of church, my favorite drug and a place that I can loose myself for hours if not days.  Between pages, I am transported.  Kindle and the technology of books in that way will never replace the smell of books, the feel of books or my love of books.  This to me is heaven.  I have spent my life mostly, "well read but sleepy."

Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinets
Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinet
Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book
Strahov Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book

Strahov Philosophical Hall



Strahov Philosophical Hall


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Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Angelica Library, Rome, Italy
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Beatus Rhenanus Library, Basel, Switzerland
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Bernadotte Library, Stockholm Sweden
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Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy
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Biblioteca Di Bella Arti, Milan, Italy
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Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal
Biblioteca do Palàcio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal
Biblioteca do Palàcio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal
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Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico
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Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain
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Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France
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Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France
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Duke of Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian, Oxford University, England
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Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA
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Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England
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Casanatense Library, Rome, Italy
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Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary
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Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK
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Dutch Royal Archives Library, Netherlands
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El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain
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Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
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George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
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Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, England (Rare books were once kept chained to the bookshelf to prevent stealing.)
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Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar II, Germany
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Joanina LIbrary University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Kremsmuenster Abbey Library, Kremsmünster, Upper Austria.
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Biblioteca Castilla La Mancha, Spain
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Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
Library of Parliament Ottawa
Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada
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Library of St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherland (Preserved from the 16th century)
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Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria
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Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Portugal
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Library of the Prussian King Frederic the Second in Potsdam, Germany
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Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria
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National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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North Reading Room, UC Berkeley, California, USA (Terrific reader suggestion)
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New York Public Library, New York, USA
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Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
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Queen’s College Library Oxford
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Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.)
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Rennie Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (Added on excellent reader suggestion.)
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Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA
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Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam
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Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden
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Russian National Library, St. Petersburg
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St. Florian Monastery-Library, Austria
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Salamanca Library, Salamanca, Spain
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Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy
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Sorbonne Library, Paris, France
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State Library, Victoria, Australia
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Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria
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Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA
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The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Theology Room at St. Deiniol’s library, North Wales
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Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland
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University-Library, Helsinki, Finland
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Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome
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Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria
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Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany
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Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
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Yale, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

At the end of this post we at Curious Expeditions asked for beautiful libraries we had overlooked. Turns out, there were a lot. In fact, more than we will ever be able to post. But in the spirit of the compendium below we have put up some of our favorites from the reader suggested libraries. Thanks to everyone who suggested a library, it’s fantastic to see that we aren’t the only ones with a bad case of librophila. (We also apologize to anyone who suffers a scrolling related injury.)
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Amelia S. Givin Library, Mount Holly Springs, PA
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Bad Schussenried Bibliothekssaal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
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Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
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Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA, USA
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Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England
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Cornell Law School Library, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA
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George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore House Library, Asheville, N.C., USA
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Harper Library, The University of Chicago, IL, USA
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John Rylands Library, Manchester, England (Thanks to Edward Brownrigg and John Rylands)
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Klementium Library, Prague, Czech Republic
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
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National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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Old Chicago Public Library (Current Cultural Center), Chicago, IL, USA
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Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, NY, USA
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Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany (The reading room pictured is entirely underground, the ceiling being level with the grass.)
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Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (The rest of Sterling Library is incredible, but I particularly enjoy that wonderful library specialty, the card catalog)
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The Grolier Club Library, NY, NY, USA
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Law Library, Iowa State Legislature, IA, USA
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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Northeast Vermont, USA
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Thomas Crane Library, Quincy MA, USA
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada
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University of Michigan (Old) Law Library, MI, USA
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Widener Library, Harvard. Cambridge, MA, USA
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Wiblingen Monestary Library, Ulm, Germany
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 Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street , London"


Jay Walker's Library
Jay Walker's library.  New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects — on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor — the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die Another Day. (Because it is.) No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you — a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy.

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