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Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Books

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Auction Name Rare and Used Books Total Sales (USD) 9,263.00
Auction Date November 10, 2017 - November 10, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #111017 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 393
Sold Lots 377 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 95.93% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
198

Die Psalmen Davids nach frantzösischer Melodey in Teutsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Ambrosium Lobwasser wie auch D. Martin Luthers und anderer Gottseeliger Lehrer, alte und neue geistreiche Gesänge und Neanders Bundes- Liedern.

1717 Not Available USD 240.00
356 Ruth, John Landis.

The Earth Is the Lord’s: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference.

2001 Not Available USD 140.00
357

1875 Historical Atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

[1875], 1992 Not Available USD 130.00
136 Groff, Clyde L.; Walter B. Groff; and Jane Evans Best.

The Groff Book. Vol. 1: A Good Life in a New Land.

1985 Not Available USD 125.00
341 Ruth, John Landis.

The Earth Is the Lord’s: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference.

2001 Not Available USD 125.00
197

Neu-Verbessertes Christliches Gesangbuch, darinnen vornemlich Hn. D. Martin Luthers, so dann auch anderer Wahr-Evangelischer Treuer Bekenner Geistreiche Gesänge enthalten.

1728 Not Available USD 110.00
110

Güldene Aepffel in silbern Schalen; oder, Schöne und nützliche Wörte und Warheiten zur Gottseligkeit.

1745; 1995 Not Available USD 100.00
337 ed. W. Davis

Civil War Times Illustrated,

1967-2011 Not Available USD 95.00
390 Fisher, John M., family.

Descendants and History of Christian Fisher Family.

1957 Not Available USD 95.00
51

Mennonite Family History.

1982-2000 Not Available USD 90.00
112 [Roosen, Gerrit].

Christliches Gemüths Gespräch vom seligmachenden Glauben, für die Jugend, in Fragen und Antworten; und ein Glaubens Bekenntniß der Mennonisten.

1839 Not Available USD 90.00
347 Hohman, John George.

The Long Lost Friend. or, Faithful & Christian Instructions Containing Wonderous and Well-Tried Arts & Remedies, for Man as Well as Animals.

1850 Not Available USD 90.00
119 Van der Smissen, Carl J., and Berend Karl Roosen.

Sammlung von Predigten.

1852 Not Available USD 85.00
270 Packull, Werner O.

Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments During the Reformation.

1995 Not Available USD 85.00
123 Arndt, Johann.

Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum, welche handeln vor heilsamer Buße, herzlicher Reue und Leid über die Sünde, und wahrem Glauben, und heiligem Leben und Wandel der rechten wahren Christen.

1832 Not Available USD 82.00
178

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.

1865 Not Available USD 80.00
50

Mennonite Life.

1947-1999 Not Available USD 75.00
153 [Sauder, George G.].

History of Lichty’s Church and Cemetery, 1889-1964.

[1964]. Not Available USD 75.00
293

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch: enthaltend Geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.

1820 Not Available USD 75.00
113 [Roosen, Gerrit].

Christliches Gemüths Gespräch vom seligmachenden Glauben, für die Jugend, in Fragen und Antworten; und ein Glaubens Bekenntniß der Mennonisten.

1839 Not Available USD 72.00
225

Das Herz des Menschen: entweder ein Tempel Gottes, oder, die Werkstätte des Teufels: zur Erweckung und Beförderung des christlichen Lebenswandels.

[1840?]. Not Available USD 65.00
117

Der Christliche Sänger, eine Sammlung der vornehmsten und gebräuchlichsten Lieder, zum Gebrauch des öffentlichen und privat Gottesdienstes für alle heilsuchende Seelen jeder Christlichen Benennung.

1855 Not Available USD 62.00
354

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms, and Revised New Testament, the Old (King James’) Version and the Revised Version, Arranged in Parallel Columns for C

 1879 Not Available USD 62.00
108

Confessions of Faith in the Anabaptist Tradition, 1527-1660.

2006 Not Available USD 60.00
116

Die gemeinschaftliche Lieder-Sammlung, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.

1883 Not Available USD 60.00
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
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