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I don't know how much it sold for, but here is a bit about where it went. According to Toge & Mildred Johansson (1972):
> The small collection at the New York Public Library (NYPL) has a six-page leaflet listing 109 items: "Catalogue. Bee-library of the late Rev. L. L. Langstroth"; this is reproduced in full on pages 23-25. We had not found this catalogue in any of the major collections, and we felt that its presence at NYPL would not be a chance occurrence if the Library had in fact purchased some of the items listed in it. To test this hypothesis, we inspected the books in NYPL that appear in the Langstroth catalogue. There is strong evidence that 24 of them were the personal property of Langstroth.
> Many of the NYPL volumes are in delicate condition, and their intrinsic as well as their historical value warrants their careful preservation. This raises the question whether it might be feasible to place these books with others in the Langstroth Memorial Collection at the Mann Library, Cornell University. Mrs. Cowan, Langstroth's daughter, hoped to find a buyer who would purchase the entire lot so that the collection could remain intact. The Panic of 1893, and the slow return to normality between 1897 and 1901, may have been the reason for selling, and for the difficulty in finding a purchaser.
T. S. K. Johansson & M. P. Johansson (1972) Bee-Library of the Late Rev. L. L. Langstroth, Bee World, 53:1, 22-27
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