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River of ink : literature, history and art

by Thomas Christensen
Paper Book, 2014
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Libraries, Essays, Anthology
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Cluny: in search of God's lost empire

by Edwin B. Mullins
Paper Book, 2006
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Christianity, Abbeys, Reconquista, First Crusade, Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercians, Heloise and Abelard, Libraries
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Cody's Books: the life and times of a Berkeley bookstore, 1956 to 1977

by Pat Cody
Paper Book, 1992
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Libraries, Cody's Books, Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer
Paper Book, 2016
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Libraries, Librarians, Timbuktu, Mali, Islam, Al Qaeda, Travelogues
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

by Ross King
Paperback, 2022
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Libraries, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Hermetica, Plato, Cosmo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Florence
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Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

by Irene Vallejo Moreu
Paper Book, 2022
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Libraries, Papyrus, Writing, Egypt, Greece, Rome
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Revenge of the Librarians

by Tom Gauld
Paper Book, 2022
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Libraries, Cartoons, Humor, Illustrated
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The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel

by Salva Rubio Adapter
Paperback, 2023
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Libraries, Judaism, Auschwitz, Nazism, Graphic Novels
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The library : a fragile history

by Andrew Pettegree
Hardcover, 2021
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Libraries, Library History
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The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive

by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
Paperback, 2022
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Libraries, Cairo Genizah, Judaism, Scrolls, Papyri, History, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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Under the Sphinx: the Search for the Hieroglyphic Key to the Real Hall of Records.

by Manu Seyfzadeh
Paperback, 2021
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Speculative Egyptology, Sphinx, Giza, Hall of Records, Libraries, Thoth, Hieroglyphics, Hieroglyphs, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

by Megan Rosenbloom
Hardcover, 2020
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Libraries, Anthropodermic Books, Tanning Human Leather
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

by Richard Ovenden Autore
Hardcover, 2020
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Libraries, Burning Books, Destruction of Archives, Warfare, Alexandria, Sarajevo, Stasi, Milton
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A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library

by Peter Booth Wiley
Hardcover, 1996
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Libraries, History of Libraries, San Francisco, Illustrated
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The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
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Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries, ZZZ
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The Rise of Universities

by Charles Homer Haskins
Paperback, 1957
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Dark and Middle Ages, Universities, Bologna, Paris, Medieval Universities, Professors, Students, Student Life, Academia, Seven Liberal Arts, Quadrivium — 4 more, Trivium, Canon Law, Books, Libraries
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The library book

by Susan Orlean
Paper Book, 2018
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Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries
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Libraries before Alexandria : ancient Near Eastern traditions

by K. S. B. Ryholt
Paper Book, 2019
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Libraries, Near East, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anthologies
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The map of knowledge : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities

by Violet Moller
Paper Book, 2019
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Libraries, Alexandria, Egypt, Baghdad, Cordoba, Toledo, Salerno, Palermo, Venice, Euclid, Elements — 4 more, Ptolemy, Almagest, Galen, Medicine
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The library beyond the book

by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Paper Book, 2014
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Libraries, Digital, Books, Future
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

by Lawrence Weschler
Paperback, 1996
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Libraries, Museums, Curios, Cabinets of Curiosities, Cabinets of Wonders, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Wunderkammer, Tradescants, Ashmole, Mutter Museum
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Iconic Books and Texts (Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts)

by James W. Watts
Paperback, 2015
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Libraries, Anthologies, Torah, Bible, Qur'ans, Book of Shadows, Frew
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

by Keith Houston
Hardcover, 2016
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Libraries, Books, Paper, Parchments, Papyrus, Codex, Writing, Typesetting, Illuminated Manuscripts, Woodcuts, Copperplate — 3 more, Lithography, Photography, Bookbinding
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The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance

by Anders Rydell
Paper Book, 2017
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Nazi Occultism, Libraries, Books
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The fires of faith

by Friedrich Heer
Paper Book, 1973
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Comparative and Western Religion, Christianity, Islam, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Japan, Cordova, Libraries
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Book (Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books)

by Karen Brookfield
Hardcover, 2000
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Libraries, Manuscripts, Illustrated, Development of Writing
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A Virginia Gentleman's Library. As proposed by Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith in 1771 and now assembled in the Brush-Everard House, Williamsburg, Virginia.

by Thomas Jefferson
Paperback, 1961
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Booklets, Libraries, Jefferson, Colonial Williamsburg
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Bizarre books

by Russell Ash
Paper Book, 1998
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Libraries, Books, Publishing, Ephemera, Humor, Oddities
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Alexandria lost : form the advent of Christianity to the Arab conquest

by Bojana Mojsov
Paper Book, 2010
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Christianity, Islam, Arab, Coptic, Hypatia, Neoplatonism, Libraries, Hermes Trismegistus — 1 more, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum

by Zahi Hawass
Paperback, 2004
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Site Guides, Libraries, Archaeology, Museums, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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Treasures of the British Library

by Nicolas Barker
Paper Book, 1988
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Libraries, Great Britain, British Isles, Illustrated
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The most beautiful libraries in the world

by Guillaume de Laubier
Paper Book, 2003
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Libraries, Illustrated
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What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria?

by Mostafa El-Abbadi
Paper Book, 2008
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Library of Alexandria, Anthologies, Libraries, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

by Estelle Ellis
Hardcover, 1995
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Libraries, Books
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The library: a world history

by James W. P. Campbell
Paper Book, 2013
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Oversize, Libraries, Alexandria, Egypt, Pergamum, Ephesus
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What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria?

by Mostafa El-Abbadi
Paper Book, 2008
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Library of Alexandria, Anthologies, Libraries, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY - GLORY OF THE HELLENIC WORLD - Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions

by Edward Alexander Parsons
Hardcover, 1952
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Libraries, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World

by Roy MacLeod
Paperback, 2002
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Alexandria, Egyptian Sites, Egypt, Libraries, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
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Printing and the Mind of Man: The Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization During Five Centuries

by John Carter Editor
Hardcover, 1967
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Oversize, Libraries, Printing, Catalogue, History
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Eikostos. Xoanon Publishing 1992 - 2012

by Daniel Schulke Editor
Hardcover, 2012
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Libraries, Grimoires and Ritual Manuals, Magic, Bibliographies, Chumbley, Cultus Sabbati, Traditional Witchcraft, Xoanon
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Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History

by Lucien X. Polastron
Hardcover, 2007
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Libraries, History
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The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski
Paperback, 2000
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Libraries
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The occult in the Western World : an annotated bibliography

by Cosette N. Kies
Paper Book, 1986
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Libraries, Bibliographies, Witchcraft, Freemasonry, Magical Orders and Secret Societies, Magic, Hermetic, Mysticism, Secret Societies
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Famous books, ancient and medieval

by Robert Bingham Downs
Paper Book, 1964
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Libraries, Summaries, Hammurabi, Ancient, Medieval, Books of the Afterlife, Egypt, Euclid, Aristotle, Plato, Galen — 6 more, Chaucer, Dante, Confucius, Sophocles, Cicero, Vergil
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Occult bibliography : an annotated list of books published in English, 1971 through 1975

by Thomas C. Clarie
Paper Book, 1978
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Libraries, Bibliographies, Occult
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Rex Libris, Vol. 1: I, Librarian

by James Turner
Paperback, 2007
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Libraries, Fiction, Thoth
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Rex Libris Volume 2: Book Of Monsters

by James Turner
Paperback, 2009
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Libraries, Fiction, Thoth
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The libraries of the Neoplatonists : proceedings of the meeting of the European Science Foundation Network "Late antiquity and Arabic thought : patterns in the constitution of European culture" held in Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004 under the impulsion of the scientific committee of the meeting, composed by Matthias Baltes, Michel Cacouros, Cristina D'Ancona, Tiziano Dorandi, Gerhard Endress, Philippe Hoffmann, Henri Hugonnard Roche

by Cristina D'Ancona Costa Editor
Paper Book, 2007
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Neoplatonism, Anthologies, Libraries, Graeco-Roman Philosophy, Graeco-Roman World
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A universal history of the destruction of books : from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq

by Fernando Báez
Paper Book, 2008
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Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, Book-burning, Cultural Destruction, Destruction of Books, History of Libraries, Censorship, Ancient World, Modern World
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Christianity and the transformation of the book : Origen, Eusebius, and the library of Caesarea

by Anthony Grafton
Paper Book, 2006
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Libraries, Christianity, Gospels
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