The map thief

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.

שנה

2014

שפה

English

סדרה

Thorndike Press large print crime scene

הוצאה

Thorndike Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

603

ISBN

9781410471147

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata