Library Collection (page 4)

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D. C. USA
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. USA Date: circa 1930s

London Trade Card - Francis Nobles Circulating Library, Otways Head, King Street, Covent Garden. 18th century

Temple of the Holy Tooth - Kandy, Sri Lanka
Sri Dalada Maligawa or Temple of the Holy Tooth - Kandy, Sri Lanka - located in the royal palace complex. An UNESCO world heritage site. The Library. Date: circa 1910s

Armillary Sphere. Astronomicon by Gaius Julius Hyginus. 1st century. Incunabula 283. Edition of 1485. Venice. Library of the University of Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Deptford Dockyard
The naval dockyard at Deptford, with Greenwich in the distance. Our Picture Library is out of sight, to the right of the picture. Date: 1793

ENGLAND (19 century). Haworth Village. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Nicholas of Cusa, Nikolaus Krebs, called (1401-1464). Philosopher, politician and cardinal of the Catholic church. Page of the dialogue De Ludo Globi (the ball game), 1460

Ogier the Dane, a legendary character of Nordic tradition, fighting against soldiers. Illustration from 15th. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Turin. National Library of the Turin University

FERMAT, Pierre de (1601-1665). French lawyer, famous for his work in mathematics. Varia Opera Mathematica (1659). Title page. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

CRESQUES, Jafuda (1350-1410); CRESQUES, Abraham ( -1381). Catalan Atlas. 1375. Fifth Leaf. Map of Delli. Detail. Camel caravan in the Silk Road to Catai crossing the mountains of Tian Shan

Theodore Roosevelt in his library at Oyster Bay N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt in his library at Oyster Bay N.Y. Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, seated, facing for the front. Date c1912

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, a part of the Bodleian Library. Date: circa 1830

Middle Temple Library
The new library of the Middle Temple, recently opened by the Prince of Wales

Horniman Museum - Forest Hill, London. Opened in 1901, the architect for this interesting building in the Arts and Crafts style was Charles Harrison Townsend

The library and reading room in the British Museum London UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Cambridge Uni Girton Lib
Cambridge: Girton College Stanley Library Date: 1913

Jules Henri Poincare / Ils
JULES HENRI POINCARE French mathematician

St Andrews University
Women students at St Andrews University reading books and making notes in the library

Oriel College 1675
A bird s-eye view of the college showing the chapel, dining hall, library and the Deans lodgings. One of 39 engravings made of Oxford Colleges by Loggan

Articulated library table (Palmwood veneered wood and oxidized brass)
6375273 Articulated library table (Palmwood veneered wood and oxidized brass) by Printz, Eugene (1889-1948); 61 x 69 x 60 cm; Private Collection

Knowledge Wins, 1914-18 (colour litho)
1768769 Knowledge Wins, 1914-18 (colour litho) by Smith, Dan (1865-1934); 72x49 cm; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA; eNewberry Library; American, out of copyright

White-eared hummingbird, Hylocharis leucotis (Trochilus leucotis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds, Edinburgh

Views of Oxford (coloured engraving)
729482 Views of Oxford (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Views of Oxford)

A saddler making a saddle in his leather workshop
A saddler in leather apron making a saddle in his workshop. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

A weaver weaving fabric on a loom in a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Basket maker weaving a basket from willow taken from an osier-bed. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

British Museum - new reading-room 1857
Interior of the new reading-room in the British Museum, London. Date: 1857

The Bibliophilists Haunt or Creechs Bookshop
EDB51776 The Bibliophilists Haunt or Creechs Bookshop by Douglas, William Fettes (1822-91); City of Edinburgh Museums and Art Galleries, Scotland; Scottish, out of copyright

Rhodes House, Oxford (b / w photo)
3094735 Rhodes House, Oxford (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rhodes House, Oxford. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Portrait of Edmond Duranty, writer and art critic. 1879 (pastel and tempera on wood)
LRI4638298 Portrait of Edmond Duranty, writer and art critic. 1879 (pastel and tempera on wood) by Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Pelagius (685-737), founder of the Asturias Kingdom and his grandson Fruela I (722-68
3499631 Pelagius (685-737), founder of the Asturias Kingdom and his grandson Fruela I (722-68) (pigment on vellum- by Spanish School, (11th century); Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

The Library of the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, (pencil
651805 The Library of the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, (pencil, pen and ink and watercolour) by Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827); 19.7x27.7 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Quiet please, at the Birmingham Reference Library, Ratcliffe Place, 27th March 1961

Exterior of British Museum - reading room 1855
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library Date: 1855

Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Date: circa 1910s

Mobile library in an English village
Enthusiastic readers line up to enter a mobile library in an unidentified rural village in the 1950s. Date: 1950s

University - Edgar Allen Library, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Date: circa 1920s

POSTER: BOOKS, c1938. Don t Gum Up a Book. Poster promoting proper care for library books. Silkscreen by Arlington Gregg, c1938

Reading Room
circa 1925: The Reading Room at the British Museum where Karl Marx was a frequent visitor. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

Plan of the Tour de Montaigne, at Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne (litho)
XIR1631462 Plan of the Tour de Montaigne, at Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne (litho) by French School, (19th century); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Commercial Agora in Ephesus
view of the Agora from the The Gate of Mazeus and Mythridates. Being the most important trade center of Ephesus, Agora was built in the third century B.C

University Library and King Carol I, Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania, Europe

Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerbys beaked whale
Plate 12 The Diodon of Sowerby. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol

Spain (1759). Royal Palace of Barcelona illuminated on the occasion of the arrival of Charles III and Maric Amalia of Saxony. Engraving by Ignacio Valls. Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Map of Bergen in 16th c. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Money agreement. Illustration from Decretum
" Money agreement. Illustration from " Decretum Gratiani" (" Gratians Decree" ). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Laon

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630). German mathematician and astronomer. Portrait. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Vietnam, Hue. Forbidden Purple (Royal) City, Royal Library, relief detail

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