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Although a thief admitted to stealing five antique maps from Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library, librarians discovered at the end of the summer that almost 80 more maps are missing from the University’s collection. These maps, which date back as far as 1562, were created by world-famous cartographers such as Gerandus Mercator and James Cook. University librarians believe that these thefts occurred over a period of many years and are unrelated to the case against Edward Forbes Smiley III, who admitted to stealing almost 100 maps from various libraries and institutions.