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Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction

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Auction Name Rare and Used Book Auction Total Sales (USD) 17,731.00
Auction Date November 30, 2020 - November 30, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #113020 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 400
Sold Lots 379 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 94.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
316 [Braght, T.J.V.]

[Der blutige Schau-Platz oder Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs Gesinnten oder Wehrlosen-Christen, die um des Zeugnuß Jesu ihres Seligmachers willen gelitten haven, und seynd getödtet worden, von Christi Zeit an bis auf das Jahr 1660

MDCCXLVIII (i.e. 1748]. Not Available USD 1,175.00
194

Das kleine Davidische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions, von alten und neuen auserlesenen Geistes-Gesängen. . . .

1760 Not Available USD 1,025.00
73 Mast, C.Z., and Robert E.

Simpson Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania.

1942 Not Available USD 725.00
22 Story, Joseph

A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof. .

1850 Not Available USD 562.00
262 Stower, C[aleb]

The Printer's Grammar; or, Introduction to the Art of Printing: Containing a Concise History of the Art, with the Improvements in the Practice of Printing, for the Last Fifty Years.

1808 Not Available USD 500.00
327

Die Heilige Schr[ifft], Altes und Neue Testaments, nach dem Grund-Text aufs neue übersehen und überetzet: Nebst einiger Erklärung des buchstäblichen Sinnes, wie auch der fürnehmsten Fürbildern und Weissaungen von Christo und seinem Rei[ch?]. . . .

1726 Not Available USD 376.00
312 Ruth, John Landis

The Earth Is the Lord’s: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 39

2001 Not Available USD 350.00
377 Ruth, John Landis

The Earth Is the Lord’s: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 39

2001 Not Available USD 350.00
110

[German Bible].

1753 Not Available USD 325.00
189 [Roosen, Gerhard]

Christliches Gemüths-Gespäch von dem geistlichen und seligmachenden Glauben, Erkäntnüß der Warheit, so zu der Gottseligkeit führet in der Hoffnung des ewigen Lebens. . .

1769 Not Available USD 325.00
349

Die kleine geistliche Harfe der Kinder Zions, oder auserlesene geistreiche Gesänge, allen wahren heilsbegierigen Säuglingen der Weißheit, insonderheit aber allen christlichen Gemeinden des Herrn zum Dienst und Gebrauch. . . . 1

1803 Not Available USD 325.00
258

The Pennsylvania-German/The Penn Germania. Ed. by P.C. Croll/H.A. Schuler/H.W. Kriebel.

Not Available USD 291.00
287

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement. Ed. by Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith. Vols. 4-Jan

1955-59 Not Available USD 225.00
199

Handbuch für Deutsche; Enthaltend Formen zu Handschriften, welche den deutschen Bürgern der Vereinigten Staaten nüzlich und dienlich seyn können. . . .

1819 Not Available USD 209.00
335 Schabalie, Johann Philip

Die wandlende Seel, Das ist: Gespräch der wandlenden Seelen mit Adam, Noah and Simon Cleophas; verfasset die Geschichten von Erschaffung der Welt an, bis zu und nach der Verwüstung Jerusalems. . . . Übersetzet von B.B.B. 4

1794 Not Available USD 189.00
42 Bracht, Thielem J.

von The Bloody Theatre; or, Martyrs' Mirror, of the Defenceless Christians, Who Suffered and Were Put to Death for the Testimony of Jesus, Their Savior, from the Time of Christ, Until the Year A.D. 1660

1837 Not Available USD 185.00
101 Braght, T.J.V.

Der blutige Schau-Platz, oder Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs Gesinnten, oder wehrlosen Christen, die um des Zeugnusses Jesu, ihres Seligmachers, willen, gelitten haben, und getödtet worden sind, von Christi Zeit an, bis auf das Jahr 1660

1814 Not Available USD 180.00
376

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage.

1978-2019 Not Available USD 177.00
188

Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze göttliche Heilige Schrifft, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers. . . . 1

1813 Not Available USD 160.00
213

Bridgens' Atlas of Lancaster Co., Penna. From actual surveys by H.F. Bridgens and assistant.

1864 Not Available USD 150.00
365

Das kleine Davidische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions, von alten und neuen auserlesenen geistes Gesängen, allen wahren heilsbegierigen Säuglingen der Weisheit. . . . 2

1797 Not Available USD 136.00
331 M[enno] S[imons]

Ein Fundament und klare Anweisung von der seligmachenden Lehre unsers Herrn Jesu Christi. Aus Gottes Wort kurz begriffen. . . .

1794 Not Available USD 135.00
342 [Burkholder, Christian]

Nützliche und erbauliche Anrede an die Jugend, von der wahren Buße vom seligmachenden Glauben an Christo Jesu, und der reinen Liebe zu Gott und seinem Nächsten; und dem Gehorsam der Worte Gottes und der reinen Uebergabe der Seelen an seine Hand. . . .

1829 Not Available USD 133.00
397 Blank, Benuel S.

The Amazing Story of the Ausbund.

2001 Not Available USD 130.00
190 Schabalie, Johann P.

Die wandlende Seel, Das ist: Gespräch der wandlenden Seelen mit Adam, Noah and Simon Cleophas; verfasset die Geschichten von Erschaffung der Welt an, bis zu und nach der Verwüstung Jerusalems. . . . Übersetzet von B.B.B. 4

1805 Not Available USD 125.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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