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
126	Bechler, LeRoy	The Black Mennonite Church in North America, 1886-1986	Scottdale, Pa.	1986	Not Available	Unknown
127	Kanagy, Conrad L.	In a Church Dismantled the Light Still Shines	Morgantown, Pa.	2021	Not Available	Unknown
128	Lehman, James O.	Mennonites in the North Face the Crises of the Civil War.	Harrisonburg, Va.	[200-?]	Not Available	Unknown
129		Mennonite Research Journal	Lancaster, Pa.	1960-1971	Not Available	Unknown
130		Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage	Lancaster, Pa.	1978-2012	Not Available	Unknown
131		The Mennonite Quarterly Review	Goshen, Ind.	1952-2004	Not Available	Unknown
132	[Funk, Henry]	A Mirror of Baptism, with Spirit, with Water, and with Blood. Drawn Up in Nine Parts. . . .	Skippack, Pa.	1853	Not Available	Unknown
133	Wanger, George F.P.	A Genealogy of the Descendants of Rev. Jacob Price, Evangelist-Pioneer. Compiled for the Price Family Association	Harrisburg, Pa.	1926	Not Available	Unknown
134	Berkey, William A.	The Berkey Book.	Arlington, Va.	1984	Not Available	Unknown
135	Garber, Allan A.	To God Alone the Honor: The Pioneer Mennonite Families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 2nd ed	Lititz, Pa.	2019	Not Available	Unknown
136	Groff, Clyde L., [et al.]	The Groff Book. Vol. 1: A Good Life in a New Land	Ronks, Pa.	1985	Not Available	Unknown
137	Landis, Wilson A., Jr.	Henry R. Landis, 1858-1925, 13th of 13 Children of Abraham D. Landes, 1810-1881, and His Descendants, All of Whom Are Descendants of Jacob Landes of Franconia Who Settled in America in 1727.	[Havertown, Pa.	195-?]	Not Available	Unknown
138		Trueb, Freda Bechtel Genealogy of the Bechtel Family, abt. 1595-2005.	[Spring City, Pa.?	2005	Not Available	Unknown
139	Good, Rufus E.	Descendants of Jacob Good	New Holland, Pa.	1987	Not Available	Unknown
140		Hoover, Lena & Lester Descendants of Francis B. Weaver and Magdalena Musser Weaver, 1835-1996	[Lititz, Pa.	1996	Not Available	Unknown
141	Stoltzfus, S. Nicholas	German Lutherans to Pennsylvania Amish: The Stoltzfus Family Story, Including a History of the Nicholas Stoltzfus Homestead. Photography by Elam S. Stoltzfus and S.Nicholas Stoltzfus.	[Morgantown, Pa.]	2019	Not Available	Unknown
142		The Pennsylvania Dutchman	Lancaster, Pa.	1949-1952	Not Available	Unknown
143	Stoudt, John Joseph	Pennsylvania Folk-Art: An Interpretation.	Allentown, Pa.	1948	Not Available	Unknown
144	Lichten, Frances	Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania	London and New York	1946	Not Available	Unknown
145	Weiser, Frederick S., and Howell J. Heaney	The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia: An Illustrated Catalogue. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vols. 10-11.	Breinigsville, Pa.	1976	Not Available	Unknown
146	Luthy, David	Barbara Ebersol, Amish Folk Artist: Her Life, Fraktur, and Death Record. Mennonite Sources and Documents, no. 4	Lancaster, Pa.	1995	Not Available	Unknown
147	Rosenberry, Edward L.	Gustav Samuel Peters and His Publishing House. Vol. 1Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 52	Ephrata, Pa.	2018	Not Available	Unknown
148	Klees, Fredric	The Pennsylvania Dutch	New York	1950	Not Available	Unknown
149	Frey, J. William	A Simple Grammar of Pennsylvania Dutch. With a new preface by C. Richard Beam.	Lancasteer, Pa.	1981	Not Available	Unknown
150	Wieand, Paul R.	Folk Medicine Plants Used in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country.	Allentown, Pa.	1961	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.