'Irreplaceable' works, including a first edition by Galileo, were taken in a London heist in 2017.
The owners of rare books, including those by Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, have described their "profound joy" at having them returned.
They belonged to three book dealers, two Italian and one German, and the books were later found buried under a house in rural Romania. Twenty-eight were assessed as having substantial damage and two books were so severely damaged they have been initially assessed as being beyond repair.One of the victims Alessandro Riquier, from Italy, said: "After three-and-a-half years, finally this terrible story has a very happy ending.
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