July 11 Book Auction Highlights
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Our July 2025 Book Auction will be a highlight of this summer for avid readers and book collectors! Highlights include: Menno Simons’ Ein Fundament und klare Anweisung, second edition, printed in 1740 in Basel (there are only six known copies of this edition in the US!) (#231); A 1681 Opera Omnia Theologica, also by Menno Simons (#236); Johann Arndt’s Paradies Gärtlein: Wie solches zur Uebung des wahren Christenthums durch geistreichen Gebete, printed in 1793 (#97); A 1748 copy of Kreutz-Schule: In sich haltend eine schöne christliche Unterweisung von dem lieben Creutz by Valentin Wudrian (#105); an1829 Gesang Buch that belonged to Elisabetha Heise (#109); and Annals of the Conestoga Valley by Mast and Simpson (#361).
The auction will also feature Magnus Friedrich Roos’ Die Lehre und Lebensgeschichte Jesu Christi, published 1776 (#380); The Wenger Book ,with index (#397); a signed copy of The Earth is the Lord’s by John L. Ruth (#302); a Bible belonging to Annie Oberholtzer, c. 1888 (#385); Das himmlische Vergnügen in Gott by Benjamin Schmolken, printed in 1787 (#161); 112 issues of Mennonite Family History (#171); 115 issues of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (#170); many issues of Mennonite Quarterly Review (#172–180); an 1814 Martyrs Mirror, published by Joseph Ehrenfried in Lancaster, PA (#387); Stark’s Handbook, printed in1825 with Jacob Hartman and S.B. Durstine inscription (#99); an 1811 Die kleine geistliche Harfe der Kinder Zions published by Michael Billmeyer (#110); a 1788 German Bible (#115); an 1870 Bible with a Jan. 29, 1869 marriage record of Christian Lang and Sophie Bruder; Landis Family genealogy books (#396); and Valentine Metzler & Anna Nissley Genealogy, volumes 2 & 3. Plus much more!
The next auction is July 11, 2025.
Please contact Used Book Manager for more information:
717.393.9745 ext. 106
Auction information
Guidelines
Books are displayed at Mennonite Life several weeks before each sale.
Catalogs are available for download here; printed catalogs are available for a subscription fee.
Online bids and credit cards are accepted.
Mail-in bids are accepted through 4:30 p.m. on the Thursday before the sale; use the online bid form below. Please bid in even dollar amounts. No absentee bids under $10 will be accepted.
For a complete list of procedures, please download the auction Policies and Procedures above. For additional information, call 717.393.9745 or email the address above.