Although I had no involvement with this sale, I'd like to point out that 
absolutely none of the sale items were from NYPL's collection.  They were 
duplicates or out-of-scope items that had been collected over the years from 
donations.   They were never even housed with NYPL's collections.

Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
blog:  http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44   Twitter: @kos2
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