{"id":1785868,"date":"2018-07-06T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785868"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:53:41","slug":"new-details-emerging-in-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/new-details-emerging-in-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details Emerging in Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some developments in the case of the rare books and maps stolen from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, which came to light last April<\/a>. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> reported last week<\/a> that a former library archivist and a bookseller are the focus of the investigation.<\/p>\n

The former archivist of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh\u2019s rare book collection told investigators he conspired with the owner of an Oakland bookseller since the 1990s to steal and resell items taken from there.<\/p>\n

Gregory Priore, who was terminated from the library on June 28, 2017, and John Schulman, who co-owns Caliban Book Shop, are under investigation for theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief, according to hundreds of pages of documents unsealed Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Charges have not yet been laid.\u00a0A search warrant was executed at the Caliban Book Shop’s warehouse last August and several of the items reported stolen from the library were apparently recovered.<\/p>\n

Note the timeline: we first heard about this in April 2018, but the searches had already been executed the previous August. The thefts had apparently been going on for decades but were only discovered in April 2017. We’re not finding things out in real time. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously:\u00a0314 Rare Books and Maps Stolen from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some developments in the case of the rare books and maps stolen from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, which came to light last April. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported last week that a former library archivist… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,264,1064,1247],"class_list":["post-1785868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-map-thefts","tag-pittsburgh","tag-priore-schulman","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789168,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/smithsonian-magazine-explores-the-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785868,"position":0},"title":"Smithsonian Magazine Explores the Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 August 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine has a very good piece summing up the case of the Carnegie Library rare book and map thefts, coverage of which has made regular appearances here on The Map Room. 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