The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Methode Nouvelle de dresser des Recueuils communiquée par l’Auteur. Authors : , J. Le Clerc and J. C. de la Croze, (eds.) Date of publication : 1687 Publisher : Wolfgang, Waesberg, Boom, & van Someren., Amsterdam Description : Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique de l’Année M.D.C. LXXXVI. Tome Second. Seconde Edition revuë & corrigée. If you have any information on this item, please contact Blackwell's Rare Books at rarebooks@blackwell.co.uk [more Stolen: Methode Nouvelle de dresser des Recueuils communiquée par l’Auteur]

This item was still reported missing as of June 11, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Authors : Carroll, Lewis Date of publication : circa 1940 Publisher : Doubleday Doran & Co, New York Description : Fine copy. If you have any information regarding this book, please contact Paul Foster at Info@paulfosterbooks.com [more Stolen: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]

UPDATE: This item has been recovered. The following photograph album has recently gone missing from a customer's collection. If anyone is offered this album (or parts that sound suspiciously like it) please contact John Kuenzig at (978) 887-4053 or orders@kuenzigbooks.com SIXTY-SIX ORIGINAL IMAGES FROM THE LANDMARK HARVARD-BOSTON AERO MEET OF 1910, THE FIRST MAJOR AVIATION EXHIBITION ON THE EAST COAST. THERE ARE IMAGES OF PRESIDENT TAFT, WILBUR WRIGHT AND GLENN CURTISS (HARVARD-BOSTON AERO MEET OF 1910). The Harvard-Boston Aero Meet was held from September 3rd to 13th, 1910. The Harvard Aeronautical Society was formed in 1909 and they held the next year the second aviation meet in the United States; the first one was held in Los Angeles earlier in 1910. The local citizens raised $50,000 to fund the event and put up $40,000 in prize money, including contests for endurance, speed and altitude. The publisher of The Boston Globe put up $10,000 for a thirty-three mile race around the Boston Light. Some of the great early aviators who participate were Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, Claude Grahame-White, A.V. Roe, Walter Brookins and Ralph Johnstone. President Taft and his family attended. It is estimated that one million people saw a plane during the meet, and it still was not enough to satisfy the crowds, since the flyers continued two days after the official end of the meet. The result was to convince hundreds of thousands of Americans that flying was safe and possible. Photograph... [more UPDATE: Missing Materials Related to 1st Aviation Exhibition]

This item was still reported missing as of June 11, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : THE BELL JAR Authors : Victoria Lucas Date of publication : 1963 Publisher : Heinemann Description : First edition in price clipped dust jacket. If you have any information on this item, please contact Christiaan Jonkers at info@jonkers.co.uk or 01491 576427. [more Stolen: The Bell Jar]

This item was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following item was stolen during the San Francisco book fair (February 3-5, 2012): Set of four 78-rpm shellac records containing the soundtrack cues for the first film version of FRANKENSTEIN. Each record bears a black-and-white label with the Universal Pictures logo along the bottom edge. Each of the four records is in a separate paper sleeve, and the group is housed in a custom clamshell box. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Royal Books at 410-366-7329 or mail@royalbooks.com. [more Stolen: Soundtrack Cues for Original Frankenstein]

The following books have been reported missing: 1. Apthorpe, Raymond. From tribal rule to modern government : the thirteenth conference proceedings of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research / edited with an introduction by Raymond Apthorpe. Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia : Rhodes Livingstone Institute, 1959. 2. Coupland, R. Kirk on the Zambesi : a chapter of African history / by R. Coupland. London : Oxford University Press, 1928. 3. Cunnison, I. G. Kinship and local organization on the Luapula : a preliminary account of some aspects of Luapula social organization / by I. Cunnison. Lusaka : Rhodes-Livingstone Instituite, 1950. Communications from the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, No. V. 4. Mackintosh, C.W. Some pioneer missions of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland / by C.W. Mackintosh. Northern Rhodesia : the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1950. Occasional papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum no. 8. 5. Norman, L.S. Nyasaland without prejudice: a balanced, critical review of the country and its peoples / by L.S. Norman, with a foreword by Sir Alfred Sharpe. London : East Africa Ltd., 1934. 6. Posselt, F.W.T. Fact and fiction: a short account of the natives of Southern Rhodesia / by F.W.T. Posselt, foreword by Sir Herbert Stanley. Bulawayo, Rhodesia : Rhodesian Printing and Pub. Co., 1942. Rev ed. 7. Shepperson, George. Independent African: John Chilembwe and the origins, setting and significance of the Nyasaland native rising of 1915 / by George Shepperson and Thomas ... [more Missing Books on Africa/African Studies]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Authors : Mezzotint by Charles Turner after Henry Fuseli Description : Mezzotint portrait in Rosewood frame stolen from a Surrey auction house. NB accompanying image of different impression of same print. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Nigel Talbot at grosvenorprints@btinternet.com [more Stolen: Portrait of Joseph Priestley]

UPDATE: This item has been recovered. The following item has been reported missing: An original cabinet photo of the original "Buster Brown". The name Buster Brown is written in ink on the mounting board right below the actual photographic image. Buster Brown's dog, "TIGE" is sitting on top of his railroad transport cage. There are two or three men standing in the background. This image was photographed in Stamford, Texas during the teens or 1920's. The size of the mounting board would be approximately 8 inches X 11 inches. If you have any information about this photo, please contact John Moschiono at (713) 444-4107 or johnmos@airmail.net [more UPDATE: Missing Original Photo of Buster Brown]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering The Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in this Nation. Written by that ever Famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doct Authors : Muffett, Thomas . . Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655 . Date of publication : 1655 Publisher : Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard, London Description : Recently rebound in period style in mottled, dark-tan calf with blind ruled borders and attractive blind-stamped corner pieces. Signatures , B-2P4 (bound without , the preliminary imprimatur leaf, as are both copies in the British Library); L2 mis-assigned L3. , 296 pages; page of preliminary leaves numbered '8'. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Tom Biro at biro@collectablebooks.co.uk [more Stolen: "Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering The Nature, Method…”]

This item was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following book went missing while in transport to Illinois. Oldroyd, Osborn H. ~LINCOLN'S CAMPAIGN, Or The Political Revolution of 1860. Profusely Illustrated. With Fourteen Portraits and Biographies of Presidential Possibilities for 1896. ~Laird & Lee, Chicago: (1896). pp. vi, 241 + Portrait Frontis and full page plates. Text drawings. Fourteen portraits and biographies of presidential possibilities for 1896. Front hinge cracked. Paper beginning to brown at edges. XLib from Amherst College Library given by Arthur Curtiss James of the Class of 1889 for books in American History. Large 12mo. Original full blue gray cloth binding with gilt portrait of Lincoln on front board. Old library label on spine. Hardbound. If you have any information on this item, please contact Ron Lieberman at 717-442-0220 or RareBooks@POBox.com [more Missing: LINCOLN'S CAMPAIGN, Or The Political Revolution of 1860…]