A Visit to Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

On 17th July, after having afternoon class, Clara,Sunny and I decided to go to the spectacularly looking library which is opposite to the WLH building. I found it is a new library whose outside wall are all made of very big and square marbles. Approaching the gate of the library, we found on the glass gate some printed words by which we knew the library was called Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. After going into the library, I was amazed by what I saw. Those marbles which constitute the four walls of the library looked like transparent glass, and the afternoon sun shone into the library which made the marble walls look like golden transparent glass walls. What's more, though there are only two stories in the library, the ceiling of the second floor is about 20 meters high. And in the middle of the second floor, there surrounded a lot of high and large bookshelves which contain a lot of rare books and famous people's manuscripts. These rare books and manuscripts look like very old and some of which are covered by dirt. But I know they are rare and very precious. Along the marble-walls of the library, there are a circle of window display cabinets in which there exhibit some very famous and invaluable books and letters and manuscripts, of which the most famous is the first edition of Bible which is written in German and very big. I was shocked when I saw the Bible, because I can never imagine a book can be made so large and after so many year, it can still be kept so intact. The spectacular library really broadened my vision.  

Look at the golden marble-walls of the library! How beautiful they are! Amazing, right? And in the middle of the library were those shelve after shelve of rare books and manuscripts.

In the following picture there is the first edition of Bible kept in one of the window display cases in the right corner of the library. It was written in German. The Bible is tremendously large, right? It is the largest book I have ever seen.

In the following picture there is an artistically delicate and invaluable book, in which a lot of all kinds of birds were drawn by a famous artist whose name I cannot remember. So the huge book is called Birds of America.