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Title: 'Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India ... Third edition', 'Single Works'
Author: HEBER, Reginald - Bishop of Calcutta
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Shelfmark: 'British Library HMNTS 010055.e.49.'
Volume: 03
Page: 5
Place of Publishing: London
Date of Publishing: 1828
Publisher: John Murray
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 001632478
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Sure, the lowest-brow library bars are dives with piles of books scattered along the walls, but the prettiest ones are a bibliophile's dream—they have you sipping a cocktail surrounded by first-edition classics or ordering scotch inside what feels like a made-for-Hollywood, elegant reading room. Here, nine of our favorite spots that make sipping feel like a literary pursuit.
In the the Hotel Metropole Monte Carlo’s lobby library bar, designed by Jacques Garcia, plush armchairs and love seats are set amid floor-to-ceiling shelves of antique books, which you're free to peruse. The only panel of fake book spines, in fact, is a secret door to the bathroom.
The tap room of this hip Chicago brewery has massive windows, a cozy fireplace, and the country’s largest collection of books on beer, donated by the World Brewing Academy. “Education has always been the backbone of my growth in the culinary arts—and now we’ve surrounded our tasting room’s fireplace with the same books and bookshelves that surrounded my classroom at the beginning of my brewing career,” says owner and brewmaster Jared Rouben.
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This lobby lounge inside the Grand Mansion, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Nanjing, is packed with more than 10,000 books—the largest hotel collection in China. Sip a signature Mandarin Sidecar amongst bookshelves that stretch three stories high and are dotted with local antiques and international treasures harking back to global explorers’ historic voyages.
With library lamps casting a glow on the bar, straws tucked into book-catalogue drawers, bespoke light fixtures crafted from antique endpapers, and red-framed pictures of literary luminaries (Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde) decorating the walls, this underground lounge in San Antonio takes its literary theme seriously. Behind the bar, custom wood shelving morphs from bottle display to bookshelves stacked with leather-bound tomes.
The Library in Manhattan's chic the NoMad Hotel boasts two full floors of shelves, with a pretty imported spiral staircase putting all that nonfiction within reach. “The guest is surrounded by a selection of books carefully curated by Thatcher Wine of Juniper Books,” says Bryan Woolley, the NoMad’s GM. “They offer a journey to get lost in architecture, folklore, the history of New York City, food, wine, music, fashion and haute, the masculine and feminine.”
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This intimate lounge off the Viceroy Santa Monica’s dramatic lobby is meant for private dining, film screenings, and after-dinner drinks. The most eye-catching feature is its bookshelves: They line the walls in a lattice-like pattern.
Pinkies up, people: This bar inside London’s Milestone Hotel is as quintessentially English as it gets. 'In our elegant Park Lounge, we have a particularly unique and extensive collection of leather-bound books, including works by Charles Dickens from 1903, a collection of Joanna Bailie’s plays from 1812, classics such as Robinson Crusoe, and Addison’s works in six volumes,” says general manager Andrew Pike.
Inside Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah, a 19th-century Istanbul inn, the jewel-tone Library Lounge is home to thousands of books and weekly literature meet-ups. The rest of the hotel leans bookish, as well: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, and John Dos Passos have all stayed in the hotel or visited its Orient Bar, and rumor has it Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express up in Room 411.
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The newly opened restaurant-bar is named after Dr. Einstein himself, and it’s packed with more than 12,000 art- and science-themed books hanging from unique pieces of cabinetry. The idea was to capture the intersection of art and science, per Greg Keffer, partner and studio leader at Rockwell Group, which designed the space. “We conceived a haphazardly stacked collection of bookcases and dressers,” he says. “It playfully evokes an imagined home of a scientist and a poet packed to the ceiling with an eclectic collection of books, antiques, and art that they’d collected throughout their lives.”