Mennonite Life, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, curates rare and historically significant books and offers them for sale at three annual auctions. The next Rare and Used Book Auction will take place in the Mennonite Life Community Room on Friday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. 

The full auction catalog is available for download at https://mennonitelife.org/events. Notable lots in this auction include a 1681 copy of Menno Simons' "Opera Omnia Theologica," an 1819 family Bible formerly belonging to Jacob Metzler (1788-1872) and Barbara Witmer (1793-1876), and "Eine Restitution, oder eine Erklaerung einiger Haupt-puncten des Gesetzes" ("A Restitution, or an Explanation of Some of the Main Points of the Law"), printed in 1763 and formerly belonging to John Graybill (c. 1814). Attendees will have the chance to bid on "Annals of the Conestoga Valley" by Mast and Simpson, a 1984 Dutch reprint of the 1685 "Martyrs Mirror" in two volumes, and Franciscus Ridderus' "Bloed-Spiegel der Religie, tot opwekkinge van Trage Christenen, door Voorbeelden der Martelaren" ("Blood-Mirror of Religion"), printed in 1726. There will be two chances to bid on "The Earth Is the Lord's" by John L. Ruth.

Bids may be submitted online and by mail until Thursday, Nov. 7. Auction books are on display in the Mennonite Life Community Room.

 Mennonite Life's vision is diverse communities connecting across boundaries by knowing and valuing their own and each other's stories of life, faith, cultures, and histories.