Four your information (no attachment of CCTV was included with original
message timed at 17.05 hours today), I copy alert from Royal Library
(Sweden)
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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http://www.rgs.org
>Dear colleagues!
>Sad news: The Royal Library, Stockholm, has also been visited by one of
>those involved in the recent wave of map theft.
>I made a quick check of our Orteliuses and Mercators, and almost all
>have suffered: some 20 maps have been cut out with some haste, mainly
>the worldmaps, America and Asia, also the Septentrionales regiones, with
>a preference for high-class engraving and bright colouring. That is, the
>same pattern as Paul van den Brink reports.
>Checking continues and will probably reveal more losses. There is now a
>major investigation as some of you may know, but I guess the chance of
>recovery is slight.
>Regretfully
>Göran Bäärnhielm, Map Curator
>Kungl. biblioteket - The Royal Library - National Library of Sweden
>P.O. Box 5039, SE-102 41 Stockholm, Sweden
>Tel.: +46-8-463 4180. Fax: +46-8-463 4328.
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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