An edition of The map thief (2014)

The map thief

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

By Michael Blanding

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Publish Date

2014

Publisher

Thorndike Press

Language

eng

Pages

300

Description:

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.