Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction, 31326, Lancaster

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 13, 2026 - March 13, 2026

Page Size: 401 items in 17 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
375	Moyer, Dennis K.	Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection	Kutztown, Pa.	1997	Not Available	Unknown
376	Kauffman, Henry J.	Architecture of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, 1700-1900	Lancaster, Pa.	1992	Not Available	Unknown
377	Lehman, James O.	Sonnenberg, a Haven and a Heritage: A Sesquicentennial History of the Swiss Mennonite Community of Southeastern Wayne County, Ohio	Kidron, Ohio	1969	Not Available	Unknown
378		Canadian German Folklore	[Waterloo, Ont.]	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
379	Dunham, Mabel	The Trail of the Conestoga	Toronto, Canada	1942	Not Available	Unknown
380		The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary	Oxford	1981	Not Available	Unknown
381		Echoes of Glory	Alexandria, Va.	1996, c1991	Not Available	Unknown
382		The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian. . . .	Boston	1849	Not Available	Unknown
383	Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn	Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their History	New York	1894	Not Available	Unknown
384		The Jonas Martin Era, Presented in a Collection of Essays, Letters and Documents That Shed Light on the Mennonite Churches During the 50 Year Ministry (1875-1925) of Bishop Jonas H. Martin	Denver, Pa.	1982	Not Available	Unknown
385	Bachman, Calvin George	The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County	Norristown, Pa.	1942	Not Available	Unknown
386	Rice, Charles S.	The Amish Year	New Brunswick, N.J.	1956	Not Available	Unknown
387	Good, Phyllis Pellman	Amish Children	Intercourse, Pa.	2000	Not Available	Unknown
388		Life and Legacy: Amos & Fannie Burkhard Zimmerman, Including the Diaries, 1923-1944	Ephrata, Pa.	2011	Not Available	Unknown
389		The Wenger Book: A Foundation Book of American Wengers, Including Variant Spellings Such as Winger, Wanger, Whanger, Wegner, Wengert, Wengerd, Wingart, Wingard, Wingert, Wangerd, Wengar, Wencker, and Names Spelled with "V" Rather Than "W." Edited by Samue	Lancaster, Pa.	1978	Not Available	Unknown
390	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.; reprint ed., Lancaster, Pa.	1908; reprint ed., 1980	Not Available	Unknown
391		Hannes Eby Death and Burial Record: Life and Death in Old Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1806-1845	Lancaster, Pa.	2012	Not Available	Unknown
392	edited by Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser	Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Lancaster, Pennsylvania	Apollo, Pa.	1988-2006	Not Available	Unknown
393		Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers	[Chicago]	1903	Not Available	Unknown
394	Harris, Alex.	A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of the Early Settlers and Eminent Men of the County. . . .	Lancaster, Pa.	1872	Not Available	Unknown
395	Egle, William Henry	Pennsylvania: Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German	Harrisburg, Pa.	1896	Not Available	Unknown
396	Bittinger, Lucy Forney	The Germans in Colonial Times	Philadelphia	1901	Not Available	Unknown
397		The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch	New York reprint ed., Bowie, Md.	1901 reprint ed. 1989	Not Available	Unknown
398	[Gibbons, Phebe Earle]	"Pennsylvania Dutch," and Other Essays	Philadelphia	1872	Not Available	Unknown
399		Large folder with 9 broadsides, including "Christian Weber / Ward geboren in Earl Taunschip, Lancaster County, im Staat Pennsylvanien, den 25sten December, (auf den / Christtag) nach der alten Zeit, im Jahr 1731. . . ."		N/A	Not Available	Unknown

Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 July

Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.

Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.

Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.

Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604

Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.

June 25, 2026

Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500

Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950