November 14 Book Auction Highlights
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Our November 14, 2025 Rare Book Auction is packed with exciting volumes that will thrill any serious book collector or scholar. Highlights include: A very rare 1769 paraphrase of the Martyrs Mirror (with illustrative prints) printed in the Netherlands (#270); a 1745 German edition of Golden Apples in Silver Bowls, published at the Ephrata Cloister (#271); a Bible published by Christopher Saur in Germantown in 1763 (#286); a rare Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch with a beautifully crafted bookplate mentioning Elisabeth Reist, written by Joseph Gingrich in 1850 (#312); an 1804 Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch published by Johann Albrecht in Lancaster (#272); and an 1820 Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch with the inscription “Das Buch gehert zu der Gemein” [Groffdale Mennonite Church] written inside (#273).
The auction will also feature the rare book The History & Life of the Reidenbach Mennonites (#293); Christliches Gemüths-Gespräch von dem geistlichen und seligmachenden Glauben, und Erkäntniß der Wahrheit, so zu der Gottseligkeit führet in der Hoffnung des ewigen Lebens, published by Michael Billmeyr in 1790 (#113); a 1736 edition of Hoffnung besserer Zeiten Kleiner Abend-Schein. Das Gewicht der Weissheit (#268); an 1814 Martyrs Mirror (#1), multiple volumes of Mennonite Quarterly Review (#131); an 1820 Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch with Lehman family names (#274); The Wenger Book (#295); and an 1853 map of the Township of East Hempfield, Lancaster County on wooden poles (#78). Plus much more!
The next auction is November 14, 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.