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The most beautiful libraries in the world /​ photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch

by Guillaume de Laubier, Jacques Bosser, Laurel Hirsch, James H. Billington

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Accession 4424 ISBN 9780810946347 Publisher Abrams
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