Mennonite Life will hold a rare and used book auction on Friday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster.

The 400 items that will be up for bids include a 1685 Dutch "Martyrs Mirror" rebound in the Netherlands, "Evangelischer Kranken-Trost" by Johann Andreae from 1774, and "Annals of the Conestoga Valley" by Mast and Simpson. Members of the public will also be able to bid on two bound volumes of the "Mennonite Research Journal," covering the period from 1960 to 1977; John L. Ruth's "The Earth Is the Lord's"; Christian Burkholder's 1829 "Nuetzliche und Erbauliche Anrede an die Jugend"; an Ausbund from about 1949 that belonged to Ephraim Stoltzfus; and a "Das Kleine Davidische Psalterspiel" from 1781 that belonged to Adam Bowers. Other lots include an 1867 "Der Christliche Saenger" formerly belonging to David Funk of Norristown, volumes one through four of "The Landis Family Book," "The Wenger Book," Albert H. Gerberich's "The Brenneman History," and "History of a John Graybill Family in America," covering the period from 1854 to 1976 and signed by both authors.

For more information and the full auction catalog, visit http://www.mennonitelife.org/events. Bids may be submitted online and by mail until Thursday, March 7. Auction books are on display in the Mennonite Life Community Room.