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Treasures
from the Worlds Great Libraries: The National Library of Australias
Centenary Exhibition
REPRINT
NOW AVAILABLE
This book
tells the story of the Librarys centenary exhibition of treasures
from great libraries of the world, including the British Library, the
Library of Congress, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the National Libraries
of China and Japan. Highlights include a Gutenberg Bible, a Caxton Chaucer,
a Dead Sea Scroll, an Albert Einstein manuscript, a Mozart score, and
some extraordinary illuminated manuscripts.
The book
contains full-colour illustrations of many of the items in the exhibition
and a commentary on each of them and their significance to the record
of human civilisation, with information on the institutions lending the
items.
ISBN 0 642
10739 4
pb, 240 x 220 mm, colour illus.

Last
updated 22 October 2002
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