William Jacques
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William Simon Jacques (born March 1969), nicknamed the "Tome Raider" by the media, is a serial book thief who has been twice convicted after stealing hundreds of rare books worth over £1 million from libraries in the UK. He was jailed in May 2002 for four years, and again in July 2010 for three and a half years.
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William Jacques
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Books stolen by Jacques by price:
*£180,000 – Sidereus Nuncius, Galileo, 1610
*£100,000 – Principia Mathematica, Newton, 1687
*£65,000 – Astronomia Nova, Kepler, 1609
*£40,000 – An essay on the principle of population, Malthus, 1798
*£28,000 – Dialogo, Galileo, 1632
*£16,000 – Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, John Napier, 1614
*£15,000 – Traite de la Lumiere, Huygens, 1690
*£14,000 – Tabulae Rudolphinae, Kepler, 1627
*£7,500 – Astronomia Instaurata, Copernicus, 1617
*£2,000 – An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, Adam Smith, 1776
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"What he did was equivalent to daubing paint on the Parthenon"
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— Ian DuQuesnay, former college tutor of Jacques, in 2002
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William Simon Jacques (born March 1969), nicknamed the "Tome Raider" by the media, is a serial book thief who has been twice convicted after stealing hundreds of rare books worth over £1 million from libraries in the UK. He was jailed in May 2002 for four years, and again in July 2010 for three and a half years.
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