Books, Documents & Maps
For over four decades, Thomson Roddick Callan have been one of the UK's leading auctioneers of antiquarian and collectable books, and related ephemera selling books from throughout the United Kingdom.
Selling, at their Carlisle Saleroom and to a worldwide audience with live internet bidding, some 12,000 books a year in single and multiple volume lots, the book department, headed by John Thomson, hold sales approximately every six weeks throughout the year, ranging from single volume consignments to entire collections and libraries.
Thomson Roddick are happy to be consulted on the potential sale of books from throughout the UK and among most recent consignments from further afield was a library of books on agricultural and rural subjects which was consigned from Warwickshire and sold well. Collection of items from a distance can often be arranged. Inevitably however, the auctioneer's heartland is Scotland and Northern England with the many works on the topography, history and literature of the northern counties of England and all of Scotland and its islands being a mainstay of the business but with strong, across-the-board interest generated for all categories at all levels of value. One of the department's strengths is that interesting but more modest value books can be featured on their own rather than in the large multiple volume lots so beloved of many auctioneers.
Insurance, probate or inheritance tax valuations of books and libraries in collections throughout the United Kingdom are undertaken.
John D M Thomson FIA (Scot) is the Head of Department and is happy to advise on books which you are considering selling by auction. John can be contacted by telephone on 01228 535 288 (Carlisle) or by email carlisle@thomsonroddick.com. If e.mailing, a telephone number for us to contact you on is appreciated.
John Thomson FIA (Scot)
Book Specialist & Auctioneer
