Mennonite Life, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, will hold a rare and used book auction in its community room on Friday, July 12, at 6:30 p.m. Mennonite Life curates rare and historically significant books and offers them for sale at three annual auctions.

The 400 items up for bids will include a rare 1681 copy of "Opera Omnia Theologica" by Menno Simons and an extremely rare 1599 Geneva Bible as well as "Der alte Grund und Fundament aus Gottes Wort" by Johannes Holdeman, Johannes Braun's "Circular-Schreiben an die Deutschen Einwohner von Rockingham und Augusta, und den benachbarten Counties," a 1788 Nuernberg Bible, and Charles Rice's "The Amish Year." The auction will also feature "A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania: 1727 to 1776" by Daniel Rupp, and "Schmaler Weg zum Leben" by Thomas Scheppard, as well as four copies of "The Earth Is the Lord's." A rare printed portrait of Tieleman van Braght will also be available.

The auction books are on display in the Mennonite Life community room. Bids may be submitted until Thursday, July 11; for more details, visit http://www.mennonitelife.org/events.