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
26	Kraybill, Donald B.	Passing On the Faith: The Story of a Mennonite School [Lancaster Mennonite School]. Photographs edited by Joanne Hess Siegrist	Intercourse, Pa.	1991	Not Available	Unknown
27		The Mennonite Central Committee Story. Edited by Cornelius J. Dyck. Vols. 1-4. From the Files of MCC; 2. Responding to Worldwide Needs; 3. Witness and Service in North America; 4. Something Meaningful for God	Scottdale, Pa.	1980-81	Not Available	Unknown
28	Sharp, John E.	My Calling to Fulfill: The Orie O. Miller Story. Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2015. 441pp (pb, ill, bib, ind, signed by author, vgc); Jacobs, Donald R. What a Life!: A Memoir	Intercourse, Pa.	2012	Not Available	Unknown
29	Stoltzfus, Louise	Quiet Shouts: Stories of Lancaster Mennonite Women Leaders	Scottdale, Pa.	1999	Not Available	Unknown
30		A Biographical Sketch of Bish. Christian Herr, also a Collection of Hymns, Written by Him in the German Language. Compiled by John F. Funk	Elkhart, Ind.	1887	Not Available	Unknown
31	Graybill, J. Paul, [et al.]	Noah H. Mack: His Life and Times, 1861-1948.		[1952]	Not Available	Unknown
32	Shank, Katie Florence	Revival Fires.	Broadway, Va.	1952	Not Available	Unknown
33	Graybill, J. Paul, [et al.]	Noah H. Mack: His Life and Times, 1861-1948. Board of Bishops of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference: [1952]. 177pp (fp, ill, ind, foxing on edges, gc); Graybill, Henry Benner The Life Story of Joseph and Susan Graybill	Lancaster, Pa.	1974	Not Available	Unknown
34	Sensenig, J.	Carl That Blessed Hope: The Story of Daniel and Marian Weaver	Denver, Pa.	2000	Not Available	Unknown
35	Reiff, Eli E., Jr.	Reiff Family History, 1735-1982: Family Names of Nine Generations, Approximately 247 Years.	Gordonville, Pa.	1982	Not Available	Unknown
36	Martin, James J.	Family Record of Moses Gehman Horning, 1870-1955, and Anna Brubaker Musser, 1870-1928.	Tamaqua, Pa.	2006	Not Available	Unknown
37	Hoover, Lester M.	Ancestors and Descendants of Henry M. Hoover and Barbara W. Nolt	Lititz, Pa.	1995	Not Available	Unknown
38	Horning, Elsie M.	A Record of the Descendants of the Moses Musser Horning and Lavina Gehman Horning Family.	N.p.	1967	Not Available	Unknown
39	Herr, Theodore W.	Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Herr and His Direct Lineal Descendants from His Birth A.D. 1639 to the Present Time, Containing the Names, etc., of 13223 Persons	Lancaster, Pa.	1908; reprint ed., Lancaster, Pa.	Not Available	Unknown
40		Houck, Trudy Gantz Gantz Family History, 1756 to 2005.	[Mount Joy, Pa.	2006	Not Available	Unknown
41	Ulrich, Raymond N.	John Burkhart Family History, 1747-1985	Denver, Pa.	1985	Not Available	Unknown
42	Hiebert, P.C., and Orie O.	Miller Feeding the Hungry: Russia Famine, 1919-1925: American Mennonite Relief Operations nder the Auspices of Mennonite Central Committee	Scottdale, Pa.	1929	Not Available	Unknown
43	Hartzler, J.S.	Mennonites in the World War; or, Nonresistance Under Test. 2nd ed	Scottdale, Pa.	1922	Not Available	Unknown
44	Detweiler, Lowell	The Hammer Rings Hope: Photos and Stories from Fifty Years of Mennonite Disaster Service	Scottdale, Pa.	2000	Not Available	Unknown
45	Martin, Earl S.	Reaching the Other Side: The Journal of an American Who Stayed to Witness Vietnam's Postwar Transition	New York	1978	Not Available	Unknown
46	Ruth, John L.	A Quiet and Peaceable Life. People's Place Booklet, no. 2	Lancaster, Pa.	1979	Not Available	Unknown
47	Fisher, Emanuel	The Key to Freedom. Walnut Creek, Ohio: Carlisle Printing, 2019. 279pp (ill, ill endpapers, music, pn); Horst, Isaac R. Separate and Peculiar.	[Mount Forest, Ont.	1979	Not Available	Unknown
48	Shenk, Sara Wenger	And Then There Were Three: An Ode to Parenthood	Scottdale, Pa.	1985	Not Available	Unknown
49	Augsburger, Myron S.	Pilgrim Aflame [fictional story about Michael Sattler]	Scottdale, Pa.	2005, c1967	Not Available	Unknown
50	Stambaugh, Sara	I Hear the Reaper's Song	Intercourse, Pa.	1984	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.