Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction, 111425, Lancaster

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 14, 2025 - November 14, 2025

Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251		Yoder, Don Pennsylvania Spirituals	Lancaster, Pa.	1961	Not Available	Unknown
252		The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 24Contents: Smith, Elmer Lewis. The Amish Today: An Analysis of Their Beliefs, Behavior and Contemporary Problems.	The Society	1961	Not Available	Unknown
253		Pennsylvania 1976. Edited by Robert Secor. 2nd printing	University Park	1976, c1975	Not Available	Unknown
254	Weitzman, David	Superpower: The Making of a Steam Locomotive. 3rd printing.	Boston	1991, c1987	Not Available	Unknown
255	Allen, Thomas B.	The Blue and the Gray. Photography by Sam Abell.	[Washington, D.C.]	1992	Not Available	Unknown
256	Edwards, Anne	Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor	New York	1984	Not Available	Unknown
257		Chronicles of the Crusades: Nine Crusades and Two Hunded Years of Bitter Conflict for the Holy Land Brought to Life Through the Words of Those Who Were Actually There. Edited by Elizabeth Hallem	New York	1989	Not Available	Unknown
258	Dvornik, Francis	The Slavs in European History and Civilization	New Brunswick, N.J.	1962	Not Available	Unknown
259	Weaver, William Woys	Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 27	New York	1993	Not Available	Unknown
260	Fegley, H.	Winslow Farming, Always Farming: A Photographic Essay of Rural Pennsylvania German Land and Life. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 20	Birdsboro, Pa.	1987	Not Available	Unknown
261	Kauffman, Henry J.	The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle	Harrisburg, Pa.	1950	Not Available	Unknown
262		Sloane, Eric ABC Book of Early Americana: A Sketchbook of Antiquities and American Firsts.	Garden City; reprint ed., New York	1963	Not Available	Unknown
263	Ernst, James E.	Ephrata: A History. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, vol. 25	Allentown, Pa.	1963	Not Available	Unknown
264	Graver, Lee	A History of the First Pennsylvania State Normal School, Now the State Teachers College at Millersville.	Millersville, Pa.	1955	Not Available	Unknown
265	Bolenius, Robert Miller	History of Lamberton Lodge, No. 476, Ancient York Masons, Lancaster, Penna., Compiled from the Records of the First Fifty Years of Its Existence, Also Biographies of the Warrant Members and Past Masters of Lodge 476, with a Complete List of Members	Lancaster, Pa.	[1920]	Not Available	Unknown
266		Bucks County Fraktur. Edited by Cory M. Amsler. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 33	Kutztown, Pa.	1999	Not Available	Unknown
267		Ice and Floods, Holtwood and Safe Harbor, March 1936.	Pennsylvania Water & Power Company, Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation	1936	Not Available	Unknown
268	Bursch, Johann Paul	Hoffnung besserer Zeiten. Kleiner Abend-Schein. Das Gewicht der Weissheit. . . . Th. K.:		1736	Not Available	Unknown
269		The Letters of the Amish Division of 1693-1711	Oregon City, Ore.	1950	Not Available	Unknown
270	Bragt, Tileman Jansz.	van 'T Merg van de Historien dr Martelaren. Behelzendt de voornaamste Getuigenissen. Shrikkelyke Vonnissen, Standvastige Belydenissen, en wree Tormenten,...	Amsterdam	1769	Not Available	Unknown
271		Guldene Aepffel in Silbern Schalen; oder: Schone und nutzlich Worte und Warheiten zur Gotseligkeit. Enthalten in Sieben Haupt-Theilen die im diesem Buch zusamen gestellet sind . . . .	Efrata	1745	Not Available	Unknown
272		[Ein unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch: Enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. Auf Begehren der Bruderschaft der Mennonisten Gemeinen aus vielen Liederbuchern gesammelt	Lancaster	1804	Not Available	Unknown
273		Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. Auf Begehren der Bruderschaft der Mennonisten Gemeinen aus vielen Liederbuchern gesammelt. . .	Lancaster	1820	Not Available	Unknown
274		Same title and publication as above. 79, [1], 472, 18pp (al, copy of Jacob Lehman, Joseph Lehman, Elizabeth Lehman, and [?] Lehman, PGS No. 2438, foxing, syp, few torn pp, front tp missing, spine cover torn, covers sl worn, gc).		N/A	Not Available	Unknown
275	[Roosen, Gerrit]	[Christliches Gemuths-Gesprach : von dem geistlichen und seligmachenden Glauben, und Erkantniss der Wahrheit, so zu der Gottseligkeit fuhret in der Hoffnung des ewigen Lebens. . . .].		N/A	Not Available	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.