See the World’s Largest Atlas plus the State Library’s smallest book.The State Library h
See the World’s Largest Atlas plus the State Library’s smallest book.The State Library holds Australia’s only copy of Earth Platinum - the world’s largest atlas, according to the Guinness World Records, with pages spanning 2.7 metres when opened.Only 31 copies of the 150 kilo, limited edition atlas were released by publisher Millennium House (Sydney) in 2012 – the State Library of NSW holds Australia’s only copy.The atlas’s 128 pages contain 61 pages of maps, 27 images of famous locations (including St.Peter’s Basilica, the Antarctic and Machu Picchu) and a double-page spread of the world’s national flags. Many of the images were made from stitching together 1,000 individual photos, and the largest image has 12,000 photos joined together. This mammoth book standing at almost two metres tall will be on public display in the Mitchell Library Reading Room from Wednesday 20 December 2017 until Monday 5 February 2018.Also on display is the smallest book in the Library - the Lord’s Prayer which was published by the International Gutenberg Society in 1958. It contains the Lord’s Prayer in seven languages: English, French, German, English (American English), Spanish, Dutch and Swedish.The book is 6 mm x 6 mm (smaller than a fingernail) and every page has been engraved on metal in a type foundry and was not reduced through photographic means. The leaves are hand folded, sewn and bound in leather and decorated with gold stamping on the cover and spine.Come and visit the Library to have your picture taken with these wonders from the collection. -- source link
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