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Auction Name Books Total Sales (USD) 10,496.00
Auction Date March 09, 2018 - March 09, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #30918 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 428
Sold Lots 387 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 90.42% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 41 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
44

Auß Bundt, das ist: etliche schöne christenliche Lieder, wie die in der Gefängnuß zu Passau in dem Schloß von den Schweizer-Brüdern und andern rechtgläubigen Christen hin und her gedichtet woren.

1838 Not Available USD 626.00
41

Auß Bundt, das ist: etliche schöne christenliche Lieder, wie die in der Gefängnuß zu Passau in dem Schloß von den Schweizer-Brüdern und andern rechtgläubigen Christen hin und her gedichtet woren.

1838 Not Available USD 620.00
408 Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325.

Not Available USD 325.00
359 Edited by Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith.

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

1955-59. Not Available USD 300.00
114

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage.

1978-2016 Not Available USD 220.00
75

Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers.

1814 Not Available USD 160.00
397 Ruth, John Landis.

The Earth Is the Lord’s: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 39.

2001 Not Available USD 160.00
133 Cassel, Daniel K.

History of the Mennonites, Historically and Biographically Arranged from the Time of the Reformation;

 1888 Not Available USD 115.00
311 Riley, W.B.

The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist. Old Testament. Vols. 1-19 complete.

1926-35. Not Available USD 115.00
250

The Brethren Encyclopedia. Edited by Donald F. Durnbaugh.

1983 Not Available USD 110.00
396 [Baskerville, John].

[The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments and also the Apocrypha Translated Out of the Original Greek, with Annotations].

[1788]. Not Available USD 110.00
39

Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need: A Scrapbook About Mennonite Immigrants from Russia, 1870-1885. Compiled and edited by Clarence Hiebert.

1974 Not Available USD 100.00
54 Hoover, Amos B., Mrs., [et al.].

Daniel S. and Anna W. Burkholder Family, 1833-1957, Genealogy.

1957 Not Available USD 100.00
110 Mark, Beth Hostetler; AnnaRuth Sider Osborne; and Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas.

Worthy of the Calling: Biographies of Paul and Lela Hostetler, Harvey and Erma Sider, Luke Jr. and Doris Keefer. Edited by E. Morris Sider.

2014 Not Available USD 100.00
414 Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Edited by William John Hinke.

Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808.

 1934 Not Available USD 100.00
240 Deppermann, Klaus.

Melchior Hoffman: Social Unrest and Apocalyptic Visions in the Age of Reformation. Edited by Benjamin Drewery; translated by Malcoln Wren.

1987 Not Available USD 77.00
224 Rice, Charles S., and Rollin C. Steinman.

The Amish Year.

1956 Not Available USD 70.00
28 Hunsecker, Charles E., and Ralph Shetler.

Gospel Witness & Gospel Herald Index of Obituaries, 1905-1998, Alphabetically Arranged.

1999 Not Available USD 65.00
164

The Complete Works of John Bunyan,

1874 Not Available USD 65.00
76

Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers.

1828 Not Available USD 62.00
2 Friedmann, Robert.

Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries: Its Genius and Its Literature. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 7.

1949 Not Available USD 60.00
84 Burkholder, Christian.

Nützliche und erbauliche Anrede an die Jugend von der wahren Buße, vom seligmachenden Glauben an Christum Jesum,

1873 Not Available USD 60.00
87 Clasen, Claus-Peter.

Anabaptism: A Social History, 1525-1618, Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany.

1972 Not Available USD 60.00
237 Lederach, Paul M.

Surrounded by Many Witnesses: Franconia Mennonite Congregation, 275th Anniversary, 1729-2004.

2004 Not Available USD 60.00
295

Various items of the Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and Related Areas:

 1970-2005. Not Available USD 60.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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