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Pepperdine Libraries Acquire Rare Books
Acquisitions include important editions of works by Charles Darwin and Mark Twain.
Pepperdine Libraries are pleased to announce important new acquisitions in support of teaching, learning, and research at Pepperdine. The acquisitions include the first American edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, as well as the first edition of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, Twain’s first full-length work. In addition, the Libraries have also acquired the first edition of Thomas Merton’s The Ascent to Truth, a volume on sea anemones by leading Victorian marine biologist Philip Henry Gosse, an example of fore-edge painting on a book of nineteenth-century poetry, and the seventeenth-century British book that first introduced Descartes to the English-speaking world.
More information about the acquisitions and related programming can be found on the Pepperdine Libraries website.
