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APPRAISAL EXPERIENCE

OUR LARGER APPRAISAL PROJECTS HAVE INCLUDED:

2,000 books in Coptic and Meroitic Studies
185 cubic foot collection on Southeast Asian religion and culture including 2500 books, thousands of photographs, field journals, films, and manuscripts
6,500 books, 20th century British & American Literature--a bookseller's stock
6,082 books (1880-1995), Philosophy and Theology
700 books in 18th- & 19th-century English Literature
2,000 books in Comparative Politics
50,000 slides/prints/negatives of railroad locomotives
1,400 books on Scandinavian History
180 linear ft. of documents comprising the archive of a Presidential Cabinet member
400 books (1646-1997) on Richard III
6,000 books of Pulitzer Prize winning historian
8,000 books in Western Americana and Pacific exploration--a library special collection

BOOKS APPRAISED INCLUDE:

Pope's Works. First Collected Edition
Thouin's Plans Raisonnes... de Jardins. Paris, 1828. 59 plates
Locke's Works. First Collected Edition
Burney's Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey in Commemoration... 1785. Quarto Edition
Wilkes. Narrative of Exploring Expedition, 1844
Marc Aurel Stein's Innermost Asia

ARCHIVE OR MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS APPRAISALS INCLUDE:

100,000 item collection of California ephemera
Artist's archive (with 2800 photo-images and 18 cubic ft. of correspondence, manuscripts, catalogs, ephemera, and some books)
1,100 books and 3,000 reports on explosives
5,000 children's books & pieces of original art
271 Rockwell Kent letters
historical archive of a theater company
214 ALS 1850s-1890s, Southern family
105 ALS 1801-1910, New England family
family memorabilia including 80 letters illuminating the 1918 influenza epidemic
5,550 item collection (in 32 banker's boxes) of family papers across three generations
coordination of an appraisal project involving 10,000 books, 4,000 letters, 500 art works--valuation exceeding $2 million.
water resources library including 3000 aerial photos, 1000 linear ft. of books, documents in 250 boxes & 18 four-drawer files
The 180 linear ft. of documents and ephemera comprising the archive of a Presidential Cabinet member

MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL APPRAISED INCLUDES:

15th century Flemish Ms Horae BVM
Edward Taylor manuscript on Types [recently rediscovered]
Steinbeck 1937 ALS, 425 words
Sanitary Commission Document signed by Lincoln and his entire cabinet
Ledgers (1864) from a California quicksilver mining company
U.S. Civil War diaries
75 word TLS from Charles Lindbergh
Book mss of E. Stanley Jones
Langston Hughes archive including typescripts, diary, notebooks, letters, and drafts
TLS or ALS from Longfellow, Nixon, Frieda Lawrence, Isherwood, Jack London, others
Express Letterbook (1851, from Nevada County, California)

OUR APPRAISALS OF ART, ARTIFACTS, AND OBJECTS INCLUDE

Maynard Dixon: three oils on canvas; 1917, 1940, 1943-46; 16 x 20 to 30x40 inches
Terrestrial Globe and Celestiarium, ca. 1715
Myriopticon: An Historical Panorama [Civil War], Milton Bradley, 1870s
Sixteen early 20th-century etchings, American & British
Art nouveau posters (French, 1890s-1910)
Original art for two dozen political cartoons
Lithographs, etchings, engravings, drawings
Thacher cylindrical slide rule
Charmian Kittredge London: 85 drawings (1889-1896)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps--94 maps of Los Angeles (1900-1950)
Holocaust collection--110 items including documents, clothing, armbands, and books
Solvay Conference photographic portfolios (1961 and 1963)
William Wollett signed lithos (some handcolored) of the Hoover Dam
World War II photo collection including Buchenwald. 328 photos.
600 maps and plans, 1880-1950: southern California land use and water resources
9,000 photographs and 7,000 audio or video recordings (part of a larger archive of Afro-Americana)
And, our appraisals have included objects, ephemera & realia including military medals, 10,000 postcards, political memorabilia, lockets of hair, Lucky Baldwin's sterling silver-appointed wooden cane, and James Michener's office suite.

AUTHOR COLLECTIONS OR ARCHIVES APPRAISED INCLUDE: