A copy of the “1568 edition of Giorgio Vasari’s Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects) was stolen from a private residence in Chicago. This book, missing since about January 1, 2017, was originally acquired in the 1950s, and rebound in the 1990s. The…

A woman was arrested for the attempted theft of two rare books from the Flower Memorial Library in Watertown, N.Y. Police reported that Tiara S. Holbrook was initially witnessed by a security guard in a roped-off area of the library near an open display case. Later, library staff described finding her with two rare books and…