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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
  • Sotheby’s
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  • 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.
  • 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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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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