Missing books

Welcome to the missing books website on which the Royal Library advertises for a number of books found to be missing from the old collections of the library in 1979-99 or earlier.

Here you will find the list of missing books, information on how to contact the library about missing books, and an illustrated survey of identification marks – owners' marks, shelfmarks, etc. – found on the rare books in the collections of the Royal Library.
Finally, various background information on the case is given.

Contact information

Please direct all information concerning found books to the library:

The Royal Library
P.O. Box 2149
DK-1016 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Att.: Sikring

Telephone: (+45) 33 47 45 00. Fax: (+45) 33 14 61 33.
E-mail: missingbooks@kb.dk

Wanted

List of missing books

Royal Identification Marks

Monograms, shelf marks, ownership marks, etc. in the books of the Royal Library

Background

During the 1970s the Royal Library suffered numerous book thefts, primarily from its old collections.