Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — The World’s Largest Libraries. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Largest Libraries.

The largest library In the world is the National Library in Paris, containing more than 2,000,000 printed volumes and about 200,000 manuscripts. The British Museum has a collection of about 1,500,000 volumes, and exceeds the St Petersburg Imperial Llbarry only by 12,000 volumes. The Royal Library at Munich contains about 900,000 printed .works, and It is exceptionally rich In pamphlets, while the Berlin Royal Library has 800,000 volumes, that of Copenhagen 510,000, that of Dresden and the University Library at Gottingen each have 500,000. The Imperial Library at Vienna has 400,000, while the University Library in the same metropolis has 370,000.