The Catalogue of the Melbourne: Public Library for 1861 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Catalogue of the Melbourne: Public Library for 1861

There are seven hundred and sixty (760) feet run of bookcases, or six thousand four hundred feet run of shelving; and, calculating that on an average one feet will hold five books, the present Library will contain thirty-two thousand volumes.

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