Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
comic strip overdue media

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Trouble in Spain's National Library

Library head resigns after rare maps stolen

Missing are two valuable world maps from rare 1482 editions of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. Valued at $100,000 apiece (but of course the cultural loss is much greater), no one knows exactly when they were taken from a restricted research area.

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