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Stolen rare book by Ptolemy recovered in London
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Stolen rare book by Ptolemy recovered in London
PARIS, May 29 (Reuters) - One of the earliest printed atlases,
Ptolemy's Cosmographia, has been recovered in London a year after it
was stolen from France's National Library, French police said on
Friday.
They said the book, printed in Bologna, Italy, in 1477, was recovered
after the French authorities discovered it had been listed for sale at
a London auction planned by Christie's this month.
The police put its value at about five million francs ($836,000).
The individual who offered it to Christie's, a Frenchman with homes in
Algeria and Paris had false ownership papers and will be taken before
a French judge on June 19, the police said.
The work by the Greek astronomer and mathematician had disappeared
from the French library's shelves in August 1997. But its absence went
undetected for three months. ^REUTERS@
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