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Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Books

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Auction Name Rare and Used Books Total Sales (USD) 17,834.00
Auction Date April 08, 2022 - April 08, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #40822 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 400
Sold Lots 374 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 93.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 26 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
253

Biblia, Das ist: Die Heilige Schrift, Altes und Neues Testaments, nach der Teutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers, mit jedes Capitel kurzen Summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen Parallelen.

1763 Not Available USD 3,025.00
339 Mast, C.Z., and Robert E. Simpson

Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania: This Volume Contains over Two Hundred Years of Local History of an American Earthly Paradise.

1942 Not Available USD 985.00
252 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 650.00
255

Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments. Nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung von Doctor Martin Luther. Mit lehrreichen Vorreden, und vielen nützlichen und seltenen Registern versehen.

1819 Not Available USD 525.00
267

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. (al, w/2 clasps, signed by Emanuel N [i.e. Emanuel Newswanger], minister at Diller Mennonite Church, Newville, Pa., PGS no. 1613

1808 Not Available USD 400.00
268

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. (al, w/2 clasps, "Dieses Buch gehört mir Peter Diller," believed to have been owned by Diller Mennonite Church, Newville, Pa., PGS

1808 Not Available USD 400.00
274 Scriver, Christian

Seelen-Schatz : Darinnen von der gläbigen Seelen mannigfältigem Creutz, Trübsal, Sorgen und Anfechtungen, so ihnen bey ihrem Christenthum begegnen, wie auch vom Trost dawider, und von den Mitteln, wodurch sie selbige überwunden, ausführlich und er

1738 Not Available USD 350.00
259 Braght, Thielem J.v.

Der blutige Schauplatz, oder Märtyrer-Spiegel der Taufs-Gesinnten oder wehrlosen Christen, die um des Zeugnisses Jesu, ihres Seligmachers, willen gelitten haben und getötet worden sind, von Christi Zeit an bis auf das Jahr 1660.

1849 Not Available USD 340.00
141

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement. Edited by Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith. Vols. 1-4.

1955-59 Not Available USD 290.00
266

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. Auf Begehren der Brüderschaft der Mennonisten Gemeinen aus vielen Liederbüchern gesammelt.

1808 Not Available USD 250.00
269

Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch enthaltend geistreiche Lieder und Psalmen, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes. Auf Begehren der Brüderschaft der Mennonisten Gemeinen aus vielen Liederbüchern gesammelt.

1820 Not Available USD 190.00
204 Fletcher, Stevenson W.

Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life, 1640-1840.

1950 Not Available USD 185.00
341

The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement. Edited by Harold S. Bender and C. Henry Smith. Vols. 1-4.

1955-59 Not Available USD 175.00
272

Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung zum gottesdienstlichen Gebrauch in den Vereinigten Evangelisch-Lutherischen Gemeinen in Pennsylvanien und den benachbarten Staaten. Gesammlet, eingerichtet und zum Druck befördert durch das hiesige Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutheris

1814 Not Available USD 170.00
118 Cronk, Sandra Lee

Gelassenheit: The Rites of the Redemptive Process in Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite Communities.

1977 Not Available USD 165.00
41 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. Photography by David N. Crill.

Not Available USD 145.00
182 Strassburger, Ralph

Beaver Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication o the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Edited by William John Hinke. Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society, vols. 42-44. Vols. 1-3 complete.

1934 Not Available USD 140.00
226

The Brethren Encyclopedia. Edited by Donald F. Durnbaugh. Vols. 1-4 complete.

1983 Not Available USD 140.00
56 Rice, Charles S.

The Amish Year. 2nd printing.

1956 Not Available USD 130.00
334 Rice, Charles S., and Rollin C. Steinmetz

The Amish Year.

1956 Not Available USD 130.00
276 [Foxe, John]

Allgemeine Geschichte des Christlichen Marterthums.

1833?]. Not Available USD 110.00
397

Die kleine Harfe der Kinder Zions, oder auserlesene geistreiche Gesänge, allen wahren heilsbegierigen Säuglingen der Weißheit, insonderheit aber allen Christlichen Gemeinden des Herrn. 2Aufl.

1811 Not Available USD 100.00
32 Oyer, John S., and Robert S. Kreider

Mirror of the Martyrs: Stories of Courage, Inspiringly Retold, of 16th Century Anabaptists Who Gave Their Lives for Their Faith.

1990 Not Available USD 95.00
52 Beachy, Leroy

Unser Leit: The Story of the Amish.

2011 Not Available USD 95.00
227 Meier, Marcus

The Origin of the Schwarzenau Brethren. Translated by Dennis L. Slabaugh. Brethren Enclyclopedia Monograph Series, no. 7

2008 Not Available USD 95.00
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
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    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.
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    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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