A month after a notorious thief admitted to stealing five antique maps from Yale, librarians said they recently discovered that 78 more rare maps are missing from the University’s collection.
The missing titles, identified in an inventory taken over the winter, were privately released to members of the map-trading community last week. University Librarian Alice Prochaska said the thefts occurred over many years and seem unrelated to the case against Edward Forbes Smiley III, who was caught raiding the Beinecke Library last July.
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