From Greek 'biblíon' (book) + 'gráphein' (to write) — 'biblíon' comes from Byblos, the Phoenician papyrus port.
A list of books and other works referred to in a scholarly work; the study of books as physical objects.
From Greek 'bibliographia' (the writing of books), from 'biblion' (book, scroll) + 'graphe' (writing), from the PIE root *gerbh- (to scratch, to carve) which is also the source of 'carve,' 'grave' (engraving), and English 'crab' (scratching). The Greek 'biblion' is the diminutive of 'biblos' (papyrus, book), from 'Byblos,' the Phoenician port city that dominated the Mediterranean papyrus trade in antiquity — so every book written in Europe is etymologically named for a Lebanese city. The element 'graph-' (PIE *gerbh-) connects bibliography to 'geography,' 'paragraph,' 'autograph,' 'photograph,' and 'graffiti.' The modern bibliographic
The word 'Bible' comes from the same Greek root as 'bibliography' — both trace to 'bíblos' (papyrus, book), which itself comes from the Phoenician port city of Byblos (modern Jbeil, Lebanon), the primary exporter of Egyptian papyrus to Greece. So 'the Bible' literally means 'the Book,' and 'bibliography' means 'book-writing.' The city of Byblos is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.