Library Eye Candy

For all you librophiliacs, feast your eyes on these:

http://curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html

Top Shelf (i.e., my favorites):

• Klementium Library, Prague, Czech Republic
• Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal (I bet this one was fun to fit on a library card)
• Austrian National Library, Vienna Austria
• Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Portugal
• Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
• George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Also loving because of the staircase:

• Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands (another one that would take both sides of the card)
• Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

An accident waiting to happen:

• Joanina LIbrary University of Coimbra, Portugal

How am I getting the books on the upper levels?

• Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Hmmm...

• Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Book dress code?

• Bad Schussenried Bibliothekssaal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Appropriately named:

• Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Libraries that would make me dizzy:

• Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria
• Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria
• Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy
• Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome
• Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany
• Wiblingen Monestary Library, Ulm, Germany