Subject: [HM] Copernicus' Revolutionibi
From: Udai Venedem (venedem@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 01:30:36 EST
Dear all (HM)rs
On Saturday feb. 5th, 2000, the Associated Press informed of the robbery of
a Copernicus' Revolutionibus (1543). This happened at the library of the
Academie des sciences de Saint-Petersbourg (Russia), and is only one of 23
other rare books from 16th and 17th century, which "disappeared" there.
During the last two years, two other Revolutionibi were stolen, one in
Poland, and the other in Ukrainia.
Usually, items belonging to libraries have some pages (more often the title
one), stamped with their mark. A current clue for a stolen book is the
missing or any way of hiding (I do not know the English for "gommage",
mechanic or chemical) of a piece of the title or of other pages. If you or
your librarian have any doubt, ask to Interpol.
Udai Venedem
venedem@wanadoo.fr
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/alta.mathematica/
catalogues of collector's books in mathematics and science.
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