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Box 1

 Container

Contains 35 Results:

Photocopies of Ibis plate listings

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note

A collection photocopies from Ibis’s plate listings in the order in which they appear in their original publications.

Dates: 1859-2004

Composite of information on stolen plates

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note

Two page sheet detailing the bibliographic description of the journal Ibis and police reports detailing contents of plastic bags containing stolen plates.

Dates: 1859-2004

Hartfield catalogue of rare books

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note

Catalogue from Hartfield’s Fine and Rare Books store dated February 11, 1985. Contains information of the value of some of the stolen plates (listing # L-74).

Dates: 1859-2004

The Shinn Lists (1982)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note

One hundred forty-four page booklet edited by William Moffett of Oberlin College listing the books stolen by another book thief, James Shinn. This booklet was created to facilitate communication between universities that had been victims of Shinn when the recovered books ended up at the wrong libraries.

Dates: 1859-2004

"Stephen Blumberg and His Stolen Books"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note

Printout from the Web of the November 1991 edition of the Abbey Newsletter detailing Stephen Blumberg’s life and history of his thefts.

Dates: 1859-2004