Antique books stolen in 'Mission: Impossible-style' raid

Rare copy of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium worth £215,000 said to have been among 160 publications taken

Mission Impossible
The perpetrators are thought to have used similar tactics to Tom Cruise's character in Mission: Impossible

A collection of antique books worth more than £2m has reportedly been stolen in a theft similar to the heist carried out in the Mission: Impossible film series.

Thieves allegedly stole as many as 160 rare and limited publications by abseiling through a hole in the ceiling of a warehouse in Feltham, London, on 30 January.

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