2. Strahov Monestary Library To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player View Curious Expeditions' mapTaken in (See more photos here)more photos here In Prague Beautiful Libraries in the World

3. Strahov Monestary Library To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player View Curious Expeditions' mapTaken in (See more photos here)more photos here In Prague Strahov Monestary Library in Prague

4. Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinets

5. Strahov Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book

6. Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

7. Angelica Library, Rome, Italy

8. August Herzog Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Germany

9. Beatus Rhenanus Library, Basel, Switzerland

10. Bernadotte Library, Stockholm Sweden

11. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

12. Biblioteca Di Bella Arti, Milan, Italy

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

14. Biblioteca do Palàcio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal

15. Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

16. Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico

17. Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain

18. Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France

19. Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France

20. Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England

21. Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA

22. Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England

24. Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary

25. Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK

26. Dutch Royal Archives Library, Netherlands

27. El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

28. Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

29. George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

30. Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands

31. Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, England (Rare books were once kept chained to the bookshelf to prevent stealing.)

32. Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar II, Germany

33. Joanina Library University of Coimbra, Portugal

34. Kremsmuenster Abbey Library, Kremsmu ̈ nster, Upper Austria.

35. Biblioteca Castilla La Mancha, Spain

36. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

37. Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada

38. Library of St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherland (Preserved from the 16th century)

39. Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria

40. Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Portugal

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

42. Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

43. National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

44. North Reading Room, UC Berkeley, California, USA (Terrific reader suggestion)

45. New York Public Library, New York, USA

46. Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium

47. Queen's College Library Oxford

48. Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.)

49. Rennie Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (Added on excellent reader suggestion.)

50. Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA

51. Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam

52. Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

53. Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

54. St. Florian Monastery-Library, Austria

55. Salamanca Library, Salamanca, Spain

56. Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy

57. Sorbonne Library, Paris, France

58. State Library, Victoria, Australia

59. Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria

60. Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington,

61. The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

62. University- Library, Helsinki, Finland Theology Room at St. Deiniol's library, North Wales

63. Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

64. University-Library, Helsinki, Finland

65. Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome

66. Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

67. Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany

68. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England

69. Yale, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA