Lord Durham Rare Books, Inc. (LDRB):
We are a professional business offering services to help collectors enjoy and enhance their collecting interests. Our services includes helping to start a collection or library, filling in elusive gaps in your collection, suggesting interesting items not on your want list, buying your items or identifying the best place(s) to sell them and doing appraisals. We have experience in all stages of collecting. Asking for assistance in by an experienced professional for any of these stages will make collecting so much more enjoyable and less expensive in the end. Read the testimonials at the right side of this web site to understand how others feel about the benefits of working with us. Remember, the journey is the reward!

Lord Durham offers 3 separate services:

1) Lord Durham Rare Books:
    We buy & sell antiquarian books, maps, prints, manuscripts, ephemera, photo and fine art. Search this site for the items we have listed on-line.

2) Lord Durham Helping Collectors Collect Services:
    A fee or commission based service to start, fill in gaps with specific identified item(s), identify items of high potential interest not on your wants list. 
Helping Collectors Collect®

• Helping Private Collectors Collect Services
• Helping Institutional or Library Collectors Services
  
• Helping find your specific "wants" request Service

3) Lord Durham Appraisal Service:
    Lord Durham Appraisal Service includes; Insurance, Financial, Estate, Valuations, Donations and Divorce. Lord Durham appraisals are prepared using one or more of the industry standard methods: Replacement value, Fair Market Value or Liquidation Value.

Please contact Duncan McLaren at 905 680-8115 or email duncan@LDRB.ca