March 14 Book Auction Highlights
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Mennonite Life’s March 14, 2025 Rare Book Auction offers an excellent variety of unique lots for any avid book collector. Highlights include: a complete 1749 Ephrata Cloister Martyr’s Mirror (#121), a very rare 1685 Martyr’s Mirror in Dutch (#85), 1859 German New Testament with Barbara Ebersol Fraktur art (#319), Interpretation of the two letters of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten in German; printed in 1761 (#95), Philip Dietrich’s Enchiridion oder Handbüchlein printed in 1811 (#100), c.1700’s Johann Friedrich Stark’s Daily Prayer Hand-Book [in German] printed in Stuttgart (#98), Annals of the Conestoga by Simpson & Mast (#173), John Ruth’s The Earth is The Lord’s (#158, #312), Ezra and Maria Zimmerman’s A Branch of the Zimmerman Off Spring of Glause Zimmerman in Europe and His Children Who Came from Europe (#87), A 2 vol. 1984 Dutch reprint of the 1685 Martyr’s Mirror (#86), a signed copy of The Amish Year by Rice & Steinmetz (#262), The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County by Calvin George Bachman (#101).
We will also have some rare Bibles with family names such as: a 1763 Bible printed by Christoph Saur in Germantown that belonged to John Baughman c.1803 (#122), 1776 Bible printed by Christoph Saur that belonged to John Oberholzer [b.1797] (#123), 1805 German Bible with a Jacob Brenneman name c.1827 (#125), Bible with family record of Samuel Gibbel [1826-1903] and Lidia Schenk [1826-1907] (#128), Bibles with Esbenshade family names (#212, #213, #215).
There will also be sets of various periodicals: a complete set of The Mennonite Community vols. 1-7 [1947-1953] (#1), a near complete set of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage vols. 1-37 (#2), 103 issues of Mennonite Family History 1982-2007 (#3), 5 bound volumes of Missionary Messenger from 1950-51 and 1969-70 (#5). 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.