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…]

The following items have gone missing from the Buffalo area: JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS, SAINT. 345?-407. Accipe candidissime lector opera divi Joannis Chrysostomi archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani. Basel: Jacob Wolff for Wolfgang Lachner, 1504. CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS. 1425-1495. Sermones de quadragesimales, de adventu, de timore.... Venice: Gabriel de Grassis, 1485. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. 1406-1457. Elegantiae de linguae latinae. Venice: Philippus Pincius, February 8, 1492. BEAUVAIS CATHEDRAL. GRES, GUILLAME DE. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin, March 24, 1258. 1 p, oblong 4to (155 x 210 mm), 20 lines, in a fine secretarial Bâtard hand; later docketing on verso. Fine condition. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, on vellum, 6 ll, in Latin, 12mo (130 x 85 mm), , being fragments of a Breviary, initials and rubrications in red and blue with extensions, with later FULL-PAGE MINIATURE of Virgin Mary in a rose-garden bound in, later blindstamped sheep over boards. BALAINIUS, JOANNES. Index generalis in omnes D. Bonaventurae super quatuor libros sententiarum. Venice: , 1580. Please contact ABAA HQ at hq@abaa.org or 212-944-8291 if you have any information on these items. [more Missing Books From Buffalo Area]

UPDATE: This item has been located. The following item has been reported missing: The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann First edition. Encased in a clear plastic protective cover (which may have been since removed); pristine condition. Inscribed by the author to Mel Schwartz. The inscription read something like "To Mel Schwartz from 'the top quark'." The inscription may have been signed "Murray". If you have any information on this item, please contact David N. Schwartz by telephone, 212-787-5017 or 917-209-5660, or email, david.schwartz@dnschwartz.com [more UPDATE: Inscribed First Edition of "The Quark and the Jaguar"]

This item was still reported missing as of June 10, 2019. The following book was reported stolen from the 2012 Washington Antiquarian Book Fair: Dahl, Roald. JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. A Children's Story. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1961),small 4to., publisher?s red cloth with blind stamped illustration, dust jacket. (viii), 118, (2) pages. First edition, first state of the author's first book for children. Bound by H. Wolff. The US edition preceded the British edition by six years. There are four full-page color plates and many other illustrations, including one full-page, which are in black, white, and shades of peach. The book is fine, but the dust jacket shows wear at the spine ends and corners, with a few additional creases and tiny closed tears. Quite attractive. If you have any information about this item, please contact Oak Knoll Books (302) 328-7232 or oakknoll@oakknoll.com. [more First Edition of "James and the Giant Peach" Stolen]

The following items have been reported stolen: Title : Manière de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes Augmentations de nouveaux bastimens faits en France. Authors : LE MUET Pierre. Date of publication : 1647 Publisher : François Langlois dict Chartres, Paris Description : Part I: -113 pages of text with a title, an allegorical engraved title to the address of PierreMariette, an Epistle and a foreword. 53 engraved figures in full page, with reported 2 and 1double page. Part Two: title followed by 31 engravings by Jean Marot, including 22 doublepage and folding 9. Second edition of the first part (the boards are the same as in the first edition of 1623) and the first edition of the second party submitting the plans and elevations of buildings constructed by ¸ The Mute: Tubeuf and Davaux hotel in Paris and the castles ofChampagne bridge, and Tanlay Chavigny in Touraine. Title : Le Premier tome de l'architecture de Philibert de L'Orme Authors : DELORME Philibert. Date of publication : 1568 Publisher : Frédéric Morel, Paris Description : Full sheepskin speckled modern taste in the eighteenth century. one layer for the title with the lien on the reverse, Preliminary pages (Letter and table lacks the white layer e6), 283pages (without layer 248), 205 figures engraved on wood with 74 full-page and 7 to double page. If you have any information on either of these items, please contact Librairie PICARD at livres@librairie-picard.com, or by phone at 01 43 26 96 73 [more Two Items Stolen from Librairie Picard]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium Authors : Joao Barbosa Rodrigues Date of publication : 1903 Description : 2 volumes If you have any information on this item, please contact Tony Fothergill at Ken Spelman Booksellers at either tony@kenspelman.com or +44 (0)1904 624414 [more Stolen: Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium]

This item was still reported missing as of June 10, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Foxes Book of Martyrs Authors : Foxes Description : Description from a recent NADFAS inventory as follows: "Foxes Book of Martyrs. Very poor condition. Faded brown leather cover. Gothic printing with black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Entries date from 1555 to 1558, but the first ten pages & the last unknown number of pages are either missing or very badly damaged." If you have any information on this item, please contact Patrick McCanlis at patmac778@hotmail.com or +44 (0)20 7439 3118 [more Stolen: Foxes Book of Martyrs]

The following items have been reported missing: 1. Aesop Naturaliz'd; in a collection of fables and stories from Aesop, Lochman, Pilpay, and others. London: printed for D. Midwinter, 1711. Third edition, "with the addition of above 50 fables." Octavo. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, reddish-brown morocco spine label. With ink annotation on front free endpaper with the dates 1723 and 1726. Seven copies worldwide on ESTC. 2. Cebes. . Cebetis Tebani Tabula, Graece & Latine, multis in locis restiuta ex MSS. codicibus...Amsterdam: apud Henricum Westenium 1689. First edition as edited by the Dutch scholar Jakob Gronovius. Small octavo. Contemporary cloth, paneled in blind, brown morocco label. Joints a bit rubbed. Ink signature on the front flyleaf of Robert Raymond, dated 1692. 3. Tasso. L'Aminte du Tasse. Edition nouvelle, revue & enrichie des Tailles douches. Traduite de l'Italien. A la Haye: Chez Levyn van Dyk, 1679. Twelvemo. Contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, lacking ties. 4. Hierocles, of Alexandria. . Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Paris: Nicolaum Nivellum 1583. Twelvemo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. If you have any information on these items, please contact Michael R. Thompson Rare Books at (323) 658-1901 or mrtbooksla@pacbell.net [more Several Books Missing from Michael R. Thompson Rare Books]