LANCASTER MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S BENEFIT AUCTION OF RARE, OUT-OF-PRINT, AND USED BOOKS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019, AT 6:30 P.M. TEL: (717) 393-9745 EXT 106; EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.lmhs.org/ The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will conduct an auction on March 8, 2019, at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one-half mile east of the intersection of Routes 30 and 462. The sale dates for the remainder of 2019 are as follows: May 10, September 13, and November 8. Please refer to the last page of the catalog for book auction procedures. Individual catalogs are available from the Society for $5.00 + $3.00 postage and handling. Persons who wish to be added to the mailing list for the rest of 2019 may do so by sending $18.75 with name and address to the Society. Higher rates apply for subscribers outside of the United States. All subscriptions expire at the end of the calendar year. The catalog is also available for free on our web site at www.lmhs.org/auction.html. 1. Martin, Louise B. (Shirk). Aaron and Amanda Shirk of Laurel Hill, 1937-2010: How They Raised Their Fifteen Children in Lancaster County, Pa. Ephrata, Pa.: Conestoga Bookstore, 2011. x, 351pp (b/w ill, pn). 2. Stoltzfus, Duane C.S. Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites During the Great War. Young Center Books in Anabaptist & Pietist Studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xxi, [i], 268pp (pb, b/w ill, bib, ind, pn). 3. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 2. Main contents: Treher, Charles M. Snow Hill Cloister; The Dialect Poems of Ralph Funk. Edited by Preston A. Barba. Allentown, Pa.: The Society, 1968. 328pp (b/w ill, bib, foxing, gc). 4. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 3. Contents: Birmelin, John. Gezwitscher: A Book of Pennsylvania German Verse; Beckel, Clarence E. Early Marriage Customs of the Moravian Congregation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Notices by German and Swiss Settlers Seeking Information of Members of Their Families, Kindred, or Friends. Compiled and translated by Anita L. Eyster; Landis, Henry Kinzer. Conestoga Wagons and Their Ornamental Ironing. The Society: 1938. 156, 32, 41, 15pp (b/w ill, bib refs, syp, front cover torn inside, gc); Danner, Edwin R. Pennsylvania Dutch Colloquialisms. York, Pa.: York City School District, 1961. 20pp (pb, syp, gc). 5. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 7. Contents: Mann, Horace M. The Bucks County Historical Society; Johnson, Elmer E.S. The Schwenkfelder Historical Library; Bitner, Mabel E. The Pennsylvania State Museum; Clemens, Gurney W. The Berks County Historical Society; Light, Richard. The Hershey Museum; Reichman, Felix. The Landis Valley Museum; Landis, Henry Kinzer, and George Diller Landis. Lancaster Rifles. The Society: 1942, c1943. 174pp (b/w ill, bib refs, syp, gc). 6. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 23. Contents: Shelley, Donald A. The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans. The Society: 1961. 375pp (dj, ill, bib, ind, signed by author, sl yellowed endpapers, gc). 7. 18 items in Home Craft Course series: Vol. 1: Keyser, Mrs. C.N, Pottery; Vol. 2: Keyser, Mrs. C.N., Pennsylvania German Pottery; Vol. 2: Keyser, Mrs. C.N., Method of Making Pennsylvania German Pottery; Vol. 3: Keyster, Mrs. C.N., Pennsylvania German Design; Vol. 5: Hoke, E., Pennsylvania German Painted Tin (Tole Ware); Vol. 6: Dundore, R., Pennsylvania German Painted Furniture; Vol. 7: Edye, M.L., Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts; Vol. 8: Kauffman, H., Pennsylvania German Pewter; Vol. 9: Reinert, G., Pennsylvania German Coverlets; Vol. 11: Lichten, F., Decorating the Pennsylvania German Chest; Vol. 17: Herricht, F., The Putz: Carved Wood Figures; Vol. 19: Montgomery, R., Pennsylvania German Architecture; Vol. 20: Graeff, A., The Pennsylvania Germans; Vol. 22: Reinert, G., Pennsylvania German Splint and Straw Baskets; Vol. 25: Kauffman, H., and Z. Kauffman, Pennsylvania German Copper and Brass; Vol. 26: Odenwelder, A., Jr., The Collector’s Art A and Z; Vol. 28: Outdoor Games of the Pennsylvania Germans; Vol. 29: Hoke, E., The Painted Tray and Free Hand Bronzing. Plymouth Meeting, Pa.: Mrs. C. Naaman Keyser, 1943-49. ca. 30-40pp/vol (all pb, ill, some syp, some sl yellowed covers, gc to vgc). 8. Gibble, Phares Brubaker. History of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ. The Conference: 1951. xiii, 593pp (b/w ill, bib, ind, sl ppn, sl yellowed endpapers, gc); Fluck, J. Lewis. A History of the Reformed Churches in Chester County. Norristown, Pa.: Herald Printing and Binding Rooms, 1892. 139, [1]pp (fp, b/w ill, sis, syp, tp and front pp loose, front and back covers torn inside, sl yellowed covers, gc). 9. Harbaugh, H[enry]. Harbaugh’s Harfe: Gedichte in Pennsylvanisch-Deutscher Mundart. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Reformed Church Publication Board, 1902. 121pp (fp, eng, foxing, syp, tp and fp loose, bottom cover edge worn, gc); Van Horne, David. The Mountain Boy of Wildhaus: A Life of Ulric Zwingli. Philadelphia: Reformed Church Publication Board, 1884. 192pp (fp, b/w ill, foxing, syp, front cover torn inside, gc). 10. Braght, Thielem J. van. The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith, and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus, Their Savior, from the Time of Christ to the Year A.D. 1660. Translated by Joseph F. Sohm. 9th ed. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Pub. House, 1972. 1157pp (pt of dj enclosed, eng, ind, vgc). 11. [English-language Bible]. Hartford: Hudson and Co., 1821. Unpaged (al, 6⅝” x 4¼”, foxing, caif, yp, front tp missing [publisher and date from N.T. tp], stained edges, spine cover torn, front cover loose and warped, mc). 12. Der allgegenwärtige Deutsche Sprachlehrer des Wortes Gottes, welcher diese Sprache in Fragen und Antworten auf eine solche neue, kurze, leichte, deutliche und gründliche Art lehret, daß man die englische Sprache in kurzer Zeit erlernen kann. Easton, Pennsylvanien: C.J. Hütter, 1808. xxx, [ii], 168, xxi, [i]pp (quarter bd, copy of Peter Eshelman, Richland, ds, yp, covers worn, gc). 13. Geschichte des Americanischen Kriegs, von 1812, vom Anfang bis zum endlichen Schluß desselben, an Page 2 March 8, 2019 dem glorreichen Achten Januar, 1815, vor Neu-Orleans. Aus dem Englischen übersezt. Hrsg. und ebenfalls zu haben bey William M’Carty, Philadelphia. Reading: Johann Ritter und Comp., 1817. 273pp (al, eng, Eshelman birth record on front lining paper, ds, yp, spine cover torn, covers worn, gc). 14. Weiser, Frederick S. Fraktur: Pennsylvania German Folk Art. Keepsake Series, no. [4]. [Ephrata, Pa.]: Science Press, 1973. 103pp (oblong, fp, chiefly ill, signed by author, stis, cover corners worn, gc). 15. Bird, Michael S. Ontario Fraktur: A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Canada. Toronto, Canada: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1977. 144pp (oblong, many ill, bib, ind, signed by author, vgc). 16. Bucks County Fraktur. Edited by Cory Amsler. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 33. Kutztown, Pa.: The Society, 1999. ix, [i], 387pp (dj, many ill, ind, vgc). 17. Borneman, Henry S. Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts: A Classification of Fraktur-Schriften and an Inquiry into Their History and Art. Corrected republication of his work originally published in 1937 by the Pennsylvania German Society as Vol. 46 of its Proceedings. New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1973. [xi], 59, [1]pp (pb, oblong, many ill, is, sl yellowed pp and covers, rbd and pp out of order, spine cover torn, covers loose, mc). 18. Fraktur: A Selective Guide to the Franklin and Marshall Fraktur Collection, [1987]. 29pp (pb, oblong, ill, bib refs, is, gc); Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Color Drawings [Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley], 1969. [72]pp (pb, ill, exhibit catalog, sis, syp, covers missing, gc); Machmer, R. and R., Berks County, Pennsylvania, Fraktur, Gerburts [sic] und Taufscheine, Artists-Scriveners-Printers, 2001. [24]pp (pb, ill, bib, pt of pp [21-22] cut out, front cover loose, mc); Wust, K., Virginia Fraktur: Penmanship as Folk Art, 1972. 28pp (pb, ill, bib, sl yellowed pp and covers, gc). 19. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 23. Contents: Shelley, Donald A. The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans. The Society: 1961. 375pp (dj, ill, bib, ind, sis, syp, front cover loose and torn inside, gc). 20. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Vol. 28. Contents: Stoudt, John Joseph. Pennsylvania German Folk Art: An Interpretation. The Society: 1966. xx, 386pp (mostly b/w ill, bib refs, is, syp, gc). 21. Borneman, Henry S. Pennsylvania German Bookplates: A Study. Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 54. Philadelphia, Pa.: The Society, 1953. [xi], iv, 169, [2]pp (fp, ill, stis, sis, syp, few loose front pp, cover edges worn, gc). 22. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 7. Contents: Klinefelter, Walter. The ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans; Heckman, Marlin L. Abraham Harley Cassel, Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German Book Collector; Marriages Performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1748- 1767. Translated and edited by Fritz Braun and Frederick Weiser. Breinigsville, Pa.: The Society, 1973. 299pp (b/w ill, bibs and bib refs, sl yellowed endpapers, gc). 23. Weiser, Frederick S., and Howell J. Heaney. The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia: An Illustrated Catalogue. Vols. 1-2 complete. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 10-11. Breinigsville, Pa.: The Society, 1976. xxxiii, [201; 212]pp (ub, fps, many ill, ind, signed by first author, foxing on covers, sps, covers loose, mc). 24. Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol.