‘Where’s Batman when you need him?’ | Surveillance video shows break-in of Boulder comic book store BOULDER, Colo. — About $14,000 in rare, valuable comic books were stolen in a smash-and...
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2024/01/05/valuable-comic-books-stolen/
A theft took place on Friday night, 10 February, at the Maggs shop in Curzon Street, London. A pane of toughened glass was attacked and five James Bond first editions stolen. https://missingbooks...
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2024/01/05/5-james-bond-books-stolen-from-shop-in-london/
01 April 2023 The book in question is a 1539 edition of the Romant de la Rose. It was shipped, via Chronopost, from LILA bookseller Mathieu Charleux of Librairie d’Âpre-Vent, Toulon, France, o...
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2024/01/05/book-lost-in-transit/
On 8 February 2023, Russell Books in Victoria, BC had several books stolen during a late night robbery. The books were valued at over $55,000 and included a signed Harry Potter novel, a Walt Whit...
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2023/02/10/books-stolen-from-antiquarian-book-shop/
To learn of the manuscript’s 105 year journey from Northern Greece to museums in Oklahoma and Washington, DC and finally back to Greece, click here.
Written by Alexander Hamiliton on 21 July 1780, the letter was reported to have been stolen from the Massachusetts State Archives during World War II. Read more
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2022/07/05/recovered-alexander-hamilton-letter-on-display/
The copy first Tamil translation of the Bible stolen in 2005 from Saraswathi Mahal Library, Thanjavur has been located. Read more about it.
The head of security at FSU’s Strozier Library has been charged with the theft of almost 5,000 of rare comic books. Read more
Andres Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico, recently announced the formation of a special art crime unit dedicated to tracking down looted Mexican artifacts. Read more
https://rbms.info/theft-reports/2021/10/05/mexicos-creation-of-a-new-art-and-antiquities-crime-unit/
Numerous manuscripts dating to the 1500s had been illegally removed from Mexico’s National Archives including documents written by Hernán Cortés and Queen Isabella. Read more here…