If I had a Time Machine I would visit the 19th century library of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Intramu...

If I had a Time Machine I would visit the 19th century library of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros (Top), just to check if the magnificent 18th century altar table in the present UST Library (Bottom) is one and the same.
The eminent Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera had a similar one, that I dined on once. Smaller than the UST table but it had finer carving and details of the Chinese lion-masks on the legs that the ignorant mistook for demons, thus making these a...