Autograph manuscript translation of documents relating to the Imperial Public Library of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Includes material concerning the establishment, reform, and finances of the library; and rules for the administration of the library. Ac...
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Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802-1880) was a French scholar of Armenian and Georgian languages and culture. He traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1837 and became a librarian at the Imperial Public Library, now the National Library of Russia, in 1842....
Subject (Geographic):
Russia (Federation), Saint Petersburg., and Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Brosset, Marie-Félicité, 1802-1880. and Imperatorskai︠a︡ publichnai︠a︡ biblīoteka (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Subject (Topic):
Administration, Librarians, Libraries, Library administration, and Public libraries
Depicts a pretty and elegantly attired young lady standing outside a circulating library. She faces right, turned towards the viewer, a parasol under her right arm and a book in her left hand. The windows of the library are filled with displays of boo...
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Title from item.
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Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Books, Window displays, Libraries, Umbrellas, and Clothing & dress
Two classical figures stand on either side of a view of the interior of a library with its shelves filled with books and an arm chair on the right. Putti are shown in the foreground and in the image in various stages of engagement with books. In the ...
Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
