The map thief

the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps

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English language

Published by Tantor Media, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-4945-0168-6
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Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.

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