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ILAB is taking a strong stance against theft, forgery and fraud. The ILAB Missing Books Register is a platform developed for any person or institution handling rare books and antiquarian material to report and register stolen or missing items, as well as search for specific items in the database, free of charge.

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The Missing Books Register was created and is hosted by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), with the aim to assist in the recovery of missing or stolen books and other associated items such as manuscripts, autographs, antique maps and prints and to discourage future thefts.

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Christianissimi doctoris Joannis de Gerson: sermo de passione domini : Nuper e Gallico in latinum traductus

by Gerson, Jean,

Reported: 23 Nov 2022
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The Moving Boundary Method of Studying the Electrophoresis of Proteins, in Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Ser. IV, Vol. 7, No. 4

by Arne Tiselius

Reported: 21 Oct 2022
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The Castrations : [some account of the revolution].

Reported: 05 Jan 2023
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MAUD

by TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD

Reported: 10 Feb 2022
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Scholastica et Methodica, Locorum... de la Rouiere

by Lucas Trelcatius

Reported: 08 Aug 2021
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Paris Artist - Illuminated Leaves

Reported: 22 Sep 2021
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Dombey and Son - Parts 2 and 3

by Charles Dickens

Reported: 22 Sep 2021
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Das Podium

by Eugen Spiro

Reported: 22 Sep 2021
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Cambridge announces the safe return of the Darwin notebooks

05 Apr 2022
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Looking back at 2021: Launch of a new ILAB website and the ILAB Missing Books Register

17 Dec 2021
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Cambridge University Library announces public appeal to recover two notebooks written by Charles Darwin

24 Nov 2020
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