Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction, 71423, Lancaster

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 14, 2023 - July 14, 2023

Page Size: 399 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
202	Edited by Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith.	The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.	Hillsboro, Kan.	1969-73, c1955-59.	Not Available	Unknown
203	Weber, Harry F.	Centennial History of the Mennonites of Illinois. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 3	Goshen, Ind.:	1931	Not Available	Unknown
204	Bender, Harold S.	Conrad Grebel, c. 1498-1526. The Founder of the Swiss Brethren Sometimes Called Anabaptists.	Goshen, Ind.:	1950	Not Available	Unknown
205	Gratz, Delbert L.	Bernese Anabaptists and Their American Descendants. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 8	Scottdale, Pa.	1953	Not Available	Unknown
206	Wenger, John	Christian The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 10	Scottdale, Pa.	1961	Not Available	Unknown
207	Davis, Kenneth Ronald	Anabaptism and Asceticism: A Study in Intellectual Origins. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 16	Scottdale, Pa.	1974	Not Available	Unknown
208	Packull, Werner O.	Mysticism and the Early South German-Austrian Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1531. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 19	Scottdale, Pa.	1977	Not Available	Unknown
209	Gross, Leonard	The Golden Years of the Hutterites: The Witness and Thought of the Communal Moravian Anabaptists During the Walpot Era, 1565-1578. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 23Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 4	Scottdale, Pa.	1945	Not Available	Unknown
210	Smith, Willard H.	Mennonites in Illinois. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, no. 24	Scottdale, Pa.	1983	Not Available	Unknown
211	Yoder, Paton	Tradition & Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 31	Scottdale, Pa.	1991	Not Available	Unknown
212	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	Scottdale, Pa.	2004	Not Available	Unknown
213	Schlabach, Theron F.	War, Peace and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 45	Scottdale, Pa.	2009	Not Available	Unknown
214	Stutzman, Ervin R.	From Nonresistance to Justice: The Transformation of Mennonite Church Peace Rhetoric, 1908-2008. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 46	Scottdale, Pa.	2011	Not Available	Unknown
215		The Sources of Swiss Anabaptism: The Grebel Letters and Related Documents. Classics of the Radical Reformation, no. 4			Not Available	Unknown
216	Gingerich, Melvin	The Mennonites in Iowa.	Iowa City, Iowa	1939	Not Available	Unknown
217	Kauffman, S.	Duane Mifflin County Amish and Mennonite Story, 1791-1991.	Belleville, Pa.	1991	Not Available	Unknown
218	Kraybill, Donald B.	Eastern Mennonite University: A Century of Countercultural Education.	University Park, Pa.	2017	Not Available	Unknown
219	Ens, Gerhard J.	Die Schule muss sein: A History of the Mennonite Collegiate Institute, 1889-1989.	Gretna, Man.	1990	Not Available	Unknown
220	Stayer, James M.	Anabaptists and the Sword.	Lawrence, Kan.	1972	Not Available	Unknown
221	Kawerau, Peter	Melchior Hoffman als religiöser Denker.	Haarlem	1954	Not Available	Unknown
222	Friesen, Abraham	Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission.	Grand Rapids, Mich.	1998	Not Available	Unknown
223	Weaver-Zercher, David	Martyrs Mirror: A Social History. Young Center Books in Anabaptist & Pietist Studies.	Baltimore	2016	Not Available	Unknown
224	Funk, John F.	The Mennonite Church and Her Accusers: A Vindication of the Chaacter of the Mennonite Church of America from Her First Organization in This Country to the Present Time.	Elkhart, Ind.	1878	Not Available	Unknown
225	Smith, C. Henry	The Mennonites: A Brief History of Their Origin and Later Development in Both Europe and America.	Berne, Ind.	1920	Not Available	Unknown
226	Remple, Henry D.	From Bolshevik Russia to America: A Mennonite Family Story.	Sioux Falls, S.D.	2001	Not Available	Unknown

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
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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.
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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