Maps still missing at Boston Public LIbrary

Rich writes “Thursday’s Boston Herald reports that three dozen antique maps worth about $1 million are missing from the BPL. “Library officials released a detailed list of the missing documents to map dealers, in case they show up on the market. The maps that are still missing were from the books and atlases used by E. Forbes Smiley III, a rare maps dealer with a home on Martha’s Vineyard. In September, Smiley was sentenced in federal court to three years in prison for stealing nearly 100 rare maps worth about $3 million from
libraries in five cities, including Boston, New York and London.
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November 17, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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