Valuable books missing since Second World War restored to Bonn library after being consigned to Sotheby’s

Six-hundred rare books, manuscripts and prints which were lost or stolen from a German library during the Second World War have been returned after they were consigned to Sotheby’s.

It is one of the largest ever returns of items lost in the war or the post-war period made in a sing…

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