The following brief article appeared in the Guardian. --ECW
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Sleight of hand conceals 16th-century book's theft
Associated Press in Vienna
Tuesday September 5, 2006
The Guardian
A 16th-century book has been stolen from an exhibition in a castle in Upper
Austria, but the crime went unnoticed for days because the thieves left
behind another book, police said yesterday.
The 1532 volume, Astronomicum Caesareum, by Petrus Apianus, disappeared from
Peuerbach Castle between August 23 and 26, when a guide discovered it had
gone. The book, worth about £20,000, was displayed in an exhibition case
under an unsecured glass panel. Police suspect the theft happened while the
exhibition was open to the public, but video surveillance so far has yielded
no clues.