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Charles Dickens, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Galileo, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), history, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John L. Stephens (1805-1852), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Rare Books Department, Shawn Sheahy, Special Collections, The University of Utah, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
The Rare Books Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah invites students, faculty, and community members to visit the Special Collections Reading Room (Level 4), where you can hold history in your hands.
The rare book collections of nearly 80,000 pieces includes first editions of Galileo’s Dialogo (1632), Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620), Dickens’ Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836), Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651), Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de Musique (1768), Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America (1841), Swift’s Travels into Remote Nations of the World (1726), Thoreau’s Walden (1854), and much, much more.
Rare Books welcomes U!
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