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Mennonite Life

Auction Info

Sale Name
Rare and Used Books
Auction Date
09/08/2017 - 09/08/2017
Year of Sale
2017
Sale Number
#90817
Total Lots
452
Sold Lots
375
Lots Sold
83.0%
Unsold Lots
77
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
19,091.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
20,658.60

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
320 Auß Bundt, das ist: etliche schöne christliche Lieder wie sie in der Gefängnüß zu Passau in dem Schloß von den Schweitzer-Brüderen, und von anderen rechtgläubigen Christen hin und her gedichtet worden.

18th century

 USD - 7,100.00
321 Auß Bundt, das ist: etliche schöne christliche Lieder: wie die in der Gefängnuß zu Passau in dem Schloß von den Schweitzer-Brüdern und andern rechtgläubigen Christen hin und her gedichtet worden.

1809

 USD - 4,015.00
328 Das gantz Nüw Testament unsers Herrn Jesu Christi: recht grundlich vertütschet.

1825?.

USD - 475.00
291 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

 USD - 280.00
82 The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

1955-59.

USD - 275.00
81 Kurzgefaßtes Weiber-Büchlein. Enthält Aristotels und Alberti Magni Hebammen-Kunst, mit den darzu gehörigen Recepten.

1798

 USD - 250.00
301 The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

1955-59.

USD - 250.00
234 The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

1955-59.

USD - 200.00
334 Schabalie, Johann Philip. Die wandlende Seele, Das ist: Gespräch der wandlenden Seelen mit Adam, Noah and Simon Cleophas: Verfasset die Geschichten von Erschaffung der Welt an, bis zu und nach der Verwüstung Jerusalems .

1805

 USD - 175.00
233 The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgat: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages.

1794

 USD - 110.00
327 Die gantze Bibel, das ist alle Bücher allts unnd neüws Testaments / den vis sprünglichen spraachen nach, auffs aller treülichest verteütschet.

1536, 1744

 USD - 97.00
292 Burdge, Edsel, Jr., and Samuel L. Horst. Building on the Gospel Foundation: The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Washington County, Maryland, 1730-1970. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 42

2004

 USD - 85.00
47 Vierstimmiges Psalmbuch, Das ist, Dr. Ambrosii Lobwassers Psalmen Davids. Transponiert durch Johann Ulrich Sulzberger.

1763

 USD - 80.00
132 [Graydon, Alexander]. Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania Within the Last Sixty Years with Occasional Remarks upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of That Eventful Period.

1811

 USD - 75.00
338 Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.

1857

 USD - 65.00
411 Epp, Frank H. Mennonite Exodus: The Rescue and Resettlement of the Russian Mennonites Since the Communist Revolution.

1962

 USD - 65.00
28 Caldwell’s Atlas of Holmes Co., Ohio.

1992

 USD - 60.00
2 4 vols in The Mennonite Experience in America series: 1. MacMaster, Richard K. Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America, 1683-1790.

1985

 USD - 60.00
185 Janzen, William. Limits on Liberty: The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite, and Doukhobor Communities in Canada.

1990

 USD - 55.00
332 Gebet-Büchlein, gestellet von einer Christum und sein Wort liebhabenden Seelen; worinnen nebst andern schönen tröstlichen Gebetern, das Leiden Jesu gebetsweise erbaulich betrachtet wird.

1806

 USD - 55.00
363 Road to Freedom: Mennonites Escape the Land of Suffering.

2000

 USD - 50.00
107 Mennonite Family History.

USD - 50.00
289 Ruth, John L. Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A Narrative Account of the Oldest Mennonite Community in North America. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 26

1984

 USD - 50.00
256 Ruth, John L. Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A Narrative Account of Life in the Oldest Mennonite Community in North America. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 26

1984

 USD - 50.00
337 Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.

1841

 USD - 50.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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