Catalogs and other material relating to the library at Palais Schaffgotsch, circa 1720s-1900gerManuscripts and printed material relating to the contents and operation of the library at Palais Schaffgotsch, Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Poland. The collection is in three parts. The first part includes: manuscripts on the history and development of the library's collection, possibly prepared for a book on the history of the library, including a circa 1900 copy of a 1650 library inventory. The second part includes printed and manuscript material, including: printed copies of the library's regulations; a printed sign with the library's hours and rules; and a manuscript with a list of European noble houses and their family mottos, circa 1750. The third part includes: a manuscript inventory from circa 1720s of the family's collection of coins, shells, stones, and small portraits housed at the family's residence in Hermsdorf unterm Kynast (now Sobieszów, Poland); manuscripts detailing the library's holdings in church history, theology, medicine, and science; and a manuscript listing folio and quarto Asian manuscripts and printed books in the Bibliotheca Habichtiana, now held at Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, PolandPalais Schaffgotsch, in Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Poland, was the family seat of the Schaffgotsch family until 1945. The library was dispersed after the second World War, following the seizure of the building by the Soviet Union in 1945.In German.