Mennonite Life: Rare and Used Book Auction, 110824, Lancaster

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November 08, 2024 - November 08, 2024
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Thomas, Edith M.

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes, Compiled During Her Visit Among the "Pennsylvania Germans.

Harrisburg, Pa. 1928 Not Available USD 10.00
152 Edited by Alice A. Johnson, [et al.].

The Standard Book of Recipe and Housewife's Guide: A Complete Book Book--Practical Household Recipes, Aids and Hints for Household Decorations, the Care of Domestic Plants and Animals and a Treatise on Domestic Medicine.

Pottstown, Pa. 1901 Not Available USD 10.00
153 Edited, designed, and illustrated by Joseph E. Morse and R. Duff Green.

Thomas B. Searight's The Old Pike: An Illustrated Narrative of the National Road.

Orange, Va. 1971 Not Available USD 25.00
154 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Translated by Theodore G. Tappert and John W. Doberstein.

Philadelphia 1942-48. Not Available USD 35.00
155 David Shultze.

The Journals and Papers of David Shultze. Vol. 1: 1726-1760 ; Vol. 2: 1761-1797.

Pennsburg, Pa. 1952-53. Not Available USD 5.00
156 Michener, Ezra

A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts from the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Meetings Composing It, to Which Is Prefixesd an Account of Their First Establishment.

Philadelphia 1860 Not Available USD 5.00
157 Harbaugh, H.

The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter, with a Full Account of His Travels and Labors Among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, Including His Services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution, 171

Philadelphia 1857; [ca. 2000?]. Not Available USD 20.00
158 Sommer, Fedor

The Iron Collar: A Novel from the Days of the Counter-Reformation. Translated by Andrew S. Berky.

Pennsburg, Pa. 1956 Not Available USD 5.00
159 Kauffman, Daniel

A Talk with Our Boys and Girls on Subjects of Interest to Young People.

Scottale, Pa. 1906 Not Available USD 5.00
160 Butler, Frederick

Elements of Geography and History Combined, in a Catechetical Form, for the Use of Families and Schools.

Wethersfield 1825 Not Available USD 17.00
161 Mitchell, S. Augustus

First Lessons in Geography for Young Children.

Philadelphia 1881 Not Available Not Sold
162 Benner, Enos

Abhandlung uber die Rechenkunst, oder Practisch Arithmetik, zum Gebrauch fur Schulen.

Sumnytaun 1848 Not Available USD 10.00
163 Mercer, Henry C.

The Origin of Log Houses in the United States.

Doylestown, Pa. 1924; 1976 Not Available USD 25.00
164 Ellis, Arthur J.

The Divining Rod: A History of Water Witching.

Washington 1917; 1957 Not Available USD 15.00
165 Hechtlinger, Adelaide

The Great Patent Medicine Era; or, Without Benefit of Doctor.

New York 1970 Not Available USD 15.00
166 Lowry, Oscar

A Virtuous Woman: Sex Life in Relation to the Christian Life.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 1951, c1938. Not Available USD 10.00
167 Jensen, Joan M.

Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850.

New Haven 1986 Not Available USD 15.00
168 Coffin, Margaret M.

Death in Early America: The History and Folklore of Customs and Superstitions of Early Medicine, Funerals, Burials, and Mourning.

New York 1976 Not Available USD 35.00
169 Farabee, William Curtis

The Central Arawaks. Anthropological Publications, vol. 9

Oosterhout, The Netherlands 1967 Not Available USD 5.00
170 Prepared by Robert N. Scott.

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Pt. 1-2 complete.

Washington 1887 Not Available USD 50.00
171 From Sumter to Shiloh.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 1. Edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel.

South Brunswick/New York 1956 Not Available USD 50.00
172 Nicolay, John G.

The Outbreak of the Rebellion.

New York 1881 Not Available USD 10.00
173 Curtis, George Ticknor

Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. Vols. 1-2 complete.

New York 1883 Not Available USD 30.00
174 Edited by Adam Stump and Henry Anstadt.

History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylania of the United Lutheran Chuch in America, 1825-1925.

Published by the Synod 1925 Not Available Not Sold
175 Wentz, Abdel Ross

The Lutheran Church in American History.

Philadelphia, Pa. 1923 Not Available USD 10.00
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