A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal book On the Origin of Species ............ this week, after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house says.
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The book, which was first printed in 1859, was bought by a family for just ..............shillings in a shop about 40 years ago, Christie's auction house says.
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The family ............... since kept the work on a bookcase in the guest toilet at their home in the Oxford area.
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............. book will go under the hammer in London on Tuesday, to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of the father of the theory of evolution's famous work.
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The book, one of about 1,250 copies in the first print run,............... to fetch 60,000 pounds ($108,277).
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Margaret Ford, head of books and manuscripts at Christie's, says the book would have been a bargain when it was bought by the present ...............
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Christie's says the son-in-law of the current owners was .............. an exhibition on Darwin and spotted a picture of the spine of the work.
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He realised the book in the toilet was something special, matching the binding of the work in the picture.