Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh.

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Salaborsa (literally Stock Exchange Room) is a library located in 2001 inside Palazzo d'Accursio or Palazzo Comunale in Bologna, Italy.

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Library of Celsus.
The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. The building was commissioned in the 110s A.D. by a consul, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary monument for his father.The library is considered an architectural marvel, and is one of the only remaining examples of a library from the Roman Empire. The Library of Celsus was the third-largest library in the Roman world behind only Alexandria and Pergamum, believed to have held around twelve thousand scrolls.(from Wikipedia)

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Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam.

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Rose Main Reading Room.
New York Public Library Main Branch.
Bryant Park. Manhattan.

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