Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — PRICELESS BOOK IS FOUND [ARTICLE]

PRICELESS BOOK IS FOUND

“Letters, of Vespucci” Stolen From Florence Some Years Ago, Is Recovered in Mail. London. —A Rome dispatch reports: “Some years ago there was stolen from Florence an old book of priceless value of which only one copy Is in existence. It was entitled “The letters of Amerigo Vespucci,” and in it the celebrated Florence explorer recounted the journeys and discoveries which he made shortly after Columbus. “The book belonged to Marquis Capponi, but, despite prolonged inquiries by the police, no trace of it could be found. Now the police, while Inspecting postal packages addressed to .foreign countries on the Italian-Swiss frontier, have discovered a parcel containing the precious work. The package was addressed to a German bookseller who fled to Switzerland after ths outbreak of war,"