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Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini.
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy’s Tomb Raiders to the World’s Greatest Museums.

Published New York: Public Affairs/Perseus Books, 2006.
ISBN 1586484028;
ISBN-13 9781586484026.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x241x32mm.
Page count: text xx,379pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is somewhat scuffed and grubby, rather ruffled on its edges and corners; some mild wear on the boards and spine, a few grubby marks on the page edges; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £10.50]
Weight without packaging: 754g.

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No medieval emphasis. Contents: Operation Geryon; Sotheby’s, Switzerland smugglers; Connoisseurs & criminals — passion for Greek vases; Corridor 17; Forensic archaeology in the Freeport; Paper trail, polaroids, & the 'Cordata'; Getty — 'museum of the Tombaroli'; The Metropolitan in New York & other rogue museums; 'Collectors are the real looters'; Laundries of London & New York; Phone taps & the great rumor; Paris raid on Robert Hecht; Raids in Zurich & Geneva, arrest & interrogations in Cyprus & Berlin -- in Los Angeles & Manhattan; Puzzle of the 'orphans'; The 'Cordata' continues; Fall of Robin Symes; Woodcutter's archive; Trial of Giacomo Medici; Trading with Japan, trials in Rome; Conclusion — $500 million + 100,000 looted tombs = Chippindale's law; Epilogue on 5th Avenue.
Appendix: Dossier.

Illustrations: 1 text illustration and 8 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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