中外注目的北堂书,即原收藏在北京西什库教堂(又称北堂)图书馆的五千余部世所罕见的珍贵外文图书,是十六至十九世纪中西交通沉淀下来的一笔巨大文化遗产,也是一座十八世纪以前的欧洲思想宝库,成为当代研究欧洲宗教、法律、科学技术、哲学、历史、文学,以及欧洲印刷史、中西文化交通,西学东渐的重要史料。然而,种种历史厄运,致使这批书籍长期淹没不彰,至 North and North eyes on the attention of the book, that is, the original collection in Beijing Xishiku Church (also known as the North Hall) library more than five thousand rare rare rare foreign books, is the precipitation of the sixteenth to nineteenth Century Chinese and Western traffic down It is also a treasure house of European thought before the eighteenth century. It has become an important historical material for the study of European religions, laws, science and technology, philosophy, history and literature, as well as European printing history, Chinese and Western cultural traffic, and western learning eastward. However, all these historical bad luck have caused these books to be submerged for so long