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
101		Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley	Ephrata, Pa.	N/A	Not Available	Unknown
102	Edited by Robert C. Denlinger	Paradise, Our Heritage, Our Home		1997	Not Available	Unknown
103	Reedy, R. Ronald	250th Anniversary of the Naming of Lititz, 1756-2006: Historical Vignettes	N.p.	2006	Not Available	Unknown
104	Edited by W. Fred Kinsey III	The North Museum and the Natural History Tradition of Lancaster County	Ephrata, Pa.	1986	Not Available	Unknown
105		The First 200 Years: Intelligencer Daily Journal, Lancaster, Pa.	Verplanck, N.Y.	1993	Not Available	Unknown
106	Pendleton, Philip E.	Oley Valley Heritage: The Colonial Years, 1700-1775	Birdsboro, Pa./Oley, Pa.	1994	Not Available	Unknown
107	Sheetz, Georg	York County: To the Setting of the Sun: An Illustrated History	Sun Valley, Calif.	2002	Not Available	Unknown
108		History of York County, Pennsylvania, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time	Chicago	1886	Not Available	Unknown
109	Oblinger, Carl	Cornwall: The People and Culture of an Industrial Camelot, 1890-1980	Harrisburg	1984	Not Available	Unknown
110	Poliniak, Louis	When Coal Was King: Mining Pennsylvania's Anthracite	Lebanon, Pa.	c1970	Not Available	Unknown
111	Shoemaker, Alfred L.	Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study	Mechanicsburg, Pa.	2009	Not Available	Unknown
112	Miller, E. Willard	Pennsylvania, Keystone to Progress: An Illustrated History	[Northridge, Calif.]	[1986]	Not Available	Unknown
113	Irvin, Joseph, and Paul Locher	Artistry of the Cabinetmaker: Featuring the Amish, Brethren, Mennonites, and Others from Wayne County, Ohio, 1806-1900	Sterling, Ohio	2010	Not Available	Unknown
114	Jennings, Peter	The Century	New York	1998	Not Available	Unknown
115	Edited by Robert Sullivan	One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001	[New York]	2001	Not Available	Unknown
116	Stover, John F.	The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads	New York	1999	Not Available	Unknown
117	Gunnarsson, Robert L.	The Story of the Northern Central Railway: From Baltimore to Lake Ontario	Sykesville, Md.	1991	Not Available	Unknown
118	Swift, Michael	Iron Horses [railroad engines]	Edison, N.J.	2008	Not Available	Unknown
119	Leffingwell, Randy	Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor	Osceola, Wis.	1993	Not Available	Unknown
120	Lessiter, Frank	Horse Power	Milwaukee, Wis.	1977	Not Available	Unknown
121	Godfrey, Anthony	Historic Resource Study: Pony Express National Historic Trail		1994	Not Available	Unknown
122	Schlosser, Ralph W.	History of Elizabethtown College, 1899-1970	Elizabethtown, Pa.	1971	Not Available	Unknown
123	[Hewitt, Rob]	Where the River Flows: Finding Faith in Rockingham County, Virginia, 1726-1876	Charlottesville, Va.	2003	Not Available	Unknown
124	Cassel, Daniel K.	Geschichte der Mennoniten	Philadelphia	1890	Not Available	Unknown
125		Die gantze Bibel, das ist alle Bucher allts unnd neuws Testaments / den vis sprunglichen spraachen nach, auffs aller treulichest verteutschet. . . .	Zurich	1536	Not Available	Unknown

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
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.