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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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Thomas Browne. Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths (1646).

by Thomas Browne.

Reported: 18 Sep 2023
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Christina Rossetti Poems

by Florence Harrison; Christina Rossetti

Reported: 21 Aug 2023
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Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

Reported: 12 May 2023
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The Spy Who Loved Me.

by Ian Fleming

Reported: 26 Apr 2023
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Agnes Martin 1912–2004 Paintings and Drawings: Stedelijk Museum Portfolio

by Agnes Martin

Reported: 26 Apr 2023
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Watership Down

by ADAMS, Richard; LAWRENCE, John (illustrator).

Reported: 26 Apr 2023
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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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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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