Library Collection (page 3)

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

HENRY the Navigator (1394-1460). Portuguese
" HENRY " the Navigator" (1394-1460). Portuguese prince, son of John I. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library."

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

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

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

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

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

MUHAMMAD (570-632). Prophet and founder of Islam. Muhammad in ecstasy. Islamic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

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

Johann Gerhard
JOHANN GERHARD German Protestant divine, standing in his library, unaware that a mouse is crossing his floor Date: 1582 - 1637

Maria Edgeworth / Library
MARIA EDGEWORTH The novelist writing in her library at her home in Edgeworthstown, near Dublin

Lady Outside Bookshop
BEAUTY IN SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE - an elegant lady emerges from a bookshop clutching a volume - or is she about to exchange it at the library ?

Spr Office - Rare Books
Offices of the SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH at their former address, Adam & Eve Mews, Kensington, London : rare books in the Library Date: 1987

Washington DC, USA - Library of Congress Mural - Orpheus
Washington DC, USA - Mural Painting - The Greek Heroes by Walter McEwen (1860-1943). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Orpheus. Slain by the Bacchantes. Date: 1920

Portolan Atlas, 1587. Map of the Iberian Peninsula, the north coastline of Africa and the Vasque Countrys region in France. Made in Messina. Facsimile. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Madrid

Charlemagne visiting the construction works of
" Charlemagne visiting the construction works of Aix la Chapelle, in 796 BC. Illustration from " Grandes Chroniques de France", edition by Antoine V鲡 rd (15th century). ITALY

Battle of Austerlitz, between the French Empire

Surgery. Ausculation and examination of patient. Illustration from 13th century. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)

Illustration of the manuscript Studio on Saint
" Illustration of the manuscript " Studio on Saint "

Cigogna manuscript (1671), Merchants in a bazaar

Building a fortress (14th c. ). Gothic art. Miniature
Building a fortress (14th c.). Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

First Crusade (1095-1099). The city of Antiochia

The Divine Comedy. s. XIV. Virgil urges Dante
The Divine Comedy. s.XIV. Virgil urges Dante

First Crusade. Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the Council of Clermont (1095). Picture of the Chronicle by Guillaume de Tyr (13th c.). Gothic art. SWITZERLAND. Geneva

Independence of Colombia. Leaflet with a proclaim signed by Sim󮠂 ol� r (13th September 1826). ECUADOR. Quito. Aurelio Espinosa Polit Ecuadorian Library

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