Thursday, December 23, 2004

£70,000 rare map thief is jailed
Peter Bellwood, from Colchester, Essex, used a razor to remove 50 pages from rare atlases in Aberystwyth from March 2000 to August 2000, and sold them to collectors for £70,000.

He was jailed at Swansea Crown Court after admitting six charges of theft at a hearing earlier this year.

The former landscape gardener, aged 52, was arrested in July 2004.

His thefts included pages from atlases dating back to the 17th Century and produced by Mercator and John Speed


-- wanted in Denmark too

one of the largest book thefts ever- Royal Library, Copenhagen - encyclopedia article about Royal Library, Copenhagen.

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