Creators: Liked Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
Likedthese two books about printed matter the map thief and man who loved books too much are not nearly as complex as the previous two books that I discussed and therefore I wouldn't necessarily recommend that you start with them but they are both very interesting fixtures within this sub-genre
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