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Auction Name Book Auction Total Sales (USD) 8,971.00
Auction Date September 13, 2019 - September 13, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #91319 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 397
Sold Lots 370 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 93.20% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 27 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
174 Mast, C.Z., and Robert E. Simpson

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

1942 Not Available USD 650.00
394 Ruth, John Landis

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

2001 Not Available USD 275.00
356

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

Not Available USD 250.00
58

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.

1955-59. Not Available USD 220.00
180

The Wenger Book: A Foundation Book of American Wengers,

1978 Not Available USD 205.00
184 [Hess, Robert A.]

Hess Genealogy: The Descendants of 1717 Immigrants Hans & Magdalena Hess, 1717-2004.

2004 Not Available USD 205.00
185 Zimmerman, Ezra

A Branch of the Zimmerman Off Spring [sic] of Glause Zimmerman in Europe and His Children Who Came from Europe....

 1988 Not Available USD 150.00
383

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage.

(1978-2016) Not Available USD 150.00
175 Wenger, Samuel E.

Anabaptist and Reformed Walking Tours of the Cities of Zürich and Bern, Switzerland. Anabaptist and Reformed Tour Guides for Switzerland, vol. 1.

2006 Not Available USD 95.00
328

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.

1982 Not Available USD 85.00
64

Mennonite Family History. Elverson, Pa./Morgantown, Pa.: Mennonite Family History.

(1982)-(2016) Not Available USD 80.00
252 Yoder, Paton

Tradition & Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 31.

1991 Not Available USD 80.00
196 Burkholder, Anna

Daniel S. Burkholder Family History.

1981 Not Available USD 75.00
148

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.

1982 Not Available USD 70.00
361 Yoder, Paton

Tradition & Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 31.

1991 Not Available USD 65.00
18

Neue illustrirte familien Bibel für häusliche Erbauung und Belehrung. Enthaltend das Alte und Neue Testament, mit den Apokryphen, der Concordanz und Randparallen, nach Dr. Martin Luther's Uebersetzung....

 1874 Not Available USD 61.00
23 Weems, M.L.

The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.

1840 Not Available USD 60.00
35 Fulton, Eleanor Jane

An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850....

 1936 Not Available USD 60.00
310 Fletcher, Stevenson W.

Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life, 1640-1840.

1971, 1950 Not Available USD 60.00
20

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Lancaster County.

2006 Not Available USD 55.00
235 Toews, John B.

Lost Fatherland: The Story of the Mennonite Emigration from Soviet Russia, 1921-1927. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 12.

1967 Not Available USD 55.00
248 Snyder, C. Arnold

The Life and Thought of Michael Sattler. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 27.

1984 Not Available USD 55.00
257 Thiesen, John D.

Mennonite and Nazi?: Attitudes Among Mennonite Colonists in Latin America, 1933-1945. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 37.

1999 Not Available USD 55.00
136 Clasen, Claus-Peter

Anabaptism: A Social History, 1525-1618: Switzerland, Austria, Moravia, South and Central Germany.

1972 Not Available USD 48.00
128 Beachy, Leroy

Unser Leit: The Story of the Amish. Vols. 1-2 complete.

2011 Not Available USD 47.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
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    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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