It’s been eight years since the Royal Library of Sweden learned that one of its librarians had stolen 56 rare books as part of a years-long theft plot that shocked the nation. Wednesday, the first of the missing tomes began to make its way home, with the help of lawyers from Am Law 200 firm Herrick Feinstein.
The Royal Library — Sweden’s equivalent of the U.S. Library of Congress — contacted the firm in February to consult on the legal entanglements involved in recovering a four-hundred-and-fifteen-year-old atlas that library officials discovered several months earlier had been sold to a gallery in New York.
