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
176 Kauffman, Dennis W.

Centennial Edition of the Mountville Mennonite Church, 1898-1998

Mountville, Pa. 1998 Not Available Unknown
177 Weaver, Martha K.C.

Celebrating God's Faithfulness: Fifty Years at Sandy Hill Mennonite Church, 1947-1997

Coatesville, Pa. 1998 Not Available Unknown
178 Denlinger, A. Martha

Real People: Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Scottdale, Pa. 1986 Not Available Unknown
179

The Mennonite Hymnal

Scottdale, Pa. 1978 Not Available Unknown
180 Detweiler, Lowell

The Hammer Rings Hope: Photos and Stories from Fifty Years of Mennonite Disaster Service

Scottdale, Pa. 2000 Not Available Unknown
181 Weaver, J. Denny

Becoming Anabaptist: The Origin and Significance of Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

Scottdale, Pa. 1987 Not Available Unknown
182 Ruth, John Landis

The Earth Is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference

N/A Not Available Unknown
183

Century of Farming: A Pictorial History of Farming from 1900 to 1999

N/A Not Available Unknown
184 Reist, Arthur L.

Conestoga Wagon.Masterpiece of the Blacksmith

[Lancaster, Pa.] 1975 Not Available Unknown
185 MacMaster, Richard K.

Elizabethtown: The First Three Centuries

Elizabethtown, Pa. 2000 Not Available Unknown
186 Edited by the Manheim Historical Society

Postcards of the Manheim Area

Manheim, Pa. 2003 Not Available Unknown
187 Compiled and edited by the Manheim Historical Society

Manheim Revisited, 1700-2000

Manheim, Pa. 2000 Not Available Unknown
188

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Lancaster County

East Petersburg, Pa. 2006 Not Available Unknown
189 Jacobs, Renee

Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania

PhIladelphia 1986 Not Available Unknown
190 Ruth, John Landis

The Earth Is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference

Scottdale, Pa. 2001 Not Available Unknown
191 Kaufman, Edmund G.

Basic Christian Convictions

North Newton, Kan. 1972 Not Available Unknown
192

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship

Nashville, Tenn. 1881 Not Available Unknown
193 Smith, Wilbur M.

A Watchman on the Wall: The Life Story of Will H. Houghton

Grand Rapids, Mich. 1951 Not Available Unknown
194 Edersheim, Alfred

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were in the Time of Christ

Grand Rapids, Mich. 1950 Not Available Unknown
195 Scovil, Elisabeth R.

Stories of the Angels in Words of One Syllable

Philadelphia 1928 Not Available Unknown
196 Stevenson, Robert Louis

A Child's Garden of Verses

Akron, Ohio 1924 Not Available Unknown
197 Stauffer, Jacob W.

A Chronicle or History Booklet About the So-Called Mennonite Church

Lancaster, Pa. 1992 Not Available Unknown
198 Albertsen, Karsten-Gerhard

The History & Life of the Reidenbach Mennonites (Thirty-Fivers)

Deutschland/Germany 1996 Not Available Unknown
199 Nibbrig, Christiaan A. Hart

A Thief in the Church: How the Plain Community Was Taken for More than $65 million--By One of Their Own: A True Story

Camp Hill, Pa. 2012 Not Available Unknown
200 Hiebert, Clarence

The Holdeman People: The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 1859-1969

Pasadena, Calif. 1973 Not Available Unknown
  • 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
  • Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
  • 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
  • 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.