Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction, 71423, Lancaster
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 14, 2023 - July 14, 2023
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 | Thielicke, Helmut | How the World Began: Man in the First Chapters of the Bible. |
Philadelphia, Pa. | c1961. | Not Available | Unknown |
| 178 | Norris, Kathleen | The Cloister Walk. |
New York | 1996 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 179 | Merton, Thomas | The Seven Storey Mountain. |
New York | c1976, c1948. | Not Available | Unknown |
| 180 | Bernard of Clairvaux; Translated by G.R. Evans. | Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works. The Classics of Western Spirituality [series]. |
New York | 1987 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 181 | Hymns Ancient and Modern for Use in the Services of the Church, with Accompanying Tunes. |
London | 1924 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 182 | A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the United Brethren n Christ. |
Dayton, Ohio | 1867 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 183 | Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
New-York | 1857 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 184 | The Epworth Hymnal. |
New York | 1885 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 185 | Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship, Comprising the Most Approved Spiritual Hymns, with Chaste and Popular Tunes. |
1842 | Not Available | Unknown | ||
| 186 | [Compiled by] P.P. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey. | Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs. |
New York | 1875 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 187 | [Compiled by] Isaiah Baltzell and Edmund S. Lorenz. | Gates of Praise: For the Sabbath-School, Praise Service, Prayer-Meeting, etc. |
Dayton, Ohio | 1880 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 188 | Baxter, Angus | In Search of Your Canadian Roots. |
Baltimore, Md. | 1995, c1994. | Not Available | Unknown |
| 189 | Ford, Barbara B. | The Oberholtzer Book: A Foundation Book of Oberholtzer Immigrants and Unestablished Lines. |
Wallin gford, Pa. | 1995 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 190 | The Mennonite Quarterly Review. |
Goshen, Ind. | 1987-2022 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 191 | Zook, J. | Max Growing in Grace: The Story of the Locust Grove Mennonite Church, 1898-1998. |
Belleville, Pa. | 1998 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 192 | Regehr, T.D. | Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970: A People Transformed. Mennonites in Canada, vol. 3 |
Toronto | 1996 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 193 | Forler, Nan Illustrated by Peter Etril Snyder. | Winterberries & Apple Blossoms: Reflections and Flavors of a Mennonite Year. |
Toronto, Ont. | 2011 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 194 | Loewen, Royden | Blumenort: A Mennonite Community in Transition, 1874-1982. |
1983 | Not Available | Unknown | |
| 195 | Edited by Calvin Wall Redekop and Samuel J. Steiner. | Mennonite Identity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. |
Lanham | 1988 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 196 | Klassen, Doreen | Helen Singing Mennonite: Low German Songs Among the Mennonites. |
Winnipeg, Man. | 1989 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 197 | Stoesz, Donald | Canadian Prairie Mennonite Ministers' Use of Scripture, 1874-1977. |
Victoria, B.C. | 2018 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 198 | [Translated by] John A. Hostetler, Leonard Gross, and Elizabeth Bender. | 7 lxxv, 887pp (fp, ill, bib, ind, vgc); Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation, 1542-1654. |
Philadelphia | 1975 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 199 | Froese, Brian | California Mennonites. Young Center Books in Anabaptist & Pietist Studies. |
Baltimore | 2015 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 200 | Camden, Laura L. | Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land. |
College Station | 2006 | Not Available | Unknown |
| 201 | Bennion, Janet | Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley. |
Tucson | 2004 | Not Available | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.