RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & ARCHIVES: appraisal & advisory services

Tom offers broad expertise gained while working on both sides of the public and private marketplaces, and has insider knowledge unique in the field. Having handled virtually every subject in the category – across all time periods – clients benefit from Tom’s extensive background and experience with literature, art, science and technology, travel, exploration, historical Americana and the history of the book. Some of the most significant collections to come on the market in the past three decades have passed through Tom’s hands, and he has appraised the papers of four Nobel Prize winners, several of the most valuable private libraries in the world, and material at the most prestigious research institutions in the United States.

As a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America and a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Tom adheres to strict ethical guidelines and strives for transparency in his advisory and appraisal practices.