Origin of Species found in British loo (ABC news)
Quiz
- 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.
- will be sold
- will be selled
- will sell
- 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.
- a few
- few
- little
- The family ............... since kept the work on a bookcase in the guest toilet at their home in the Oxford area.
- was
- had
- has
- ............. 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.
- /
- The
- A
- The book, one of about 1,250 copies in the first print run,............... to fetch 60,000 pounds (8,277).
- has expected
- is expected
- had expected
- 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 ...............
- owneer
- ovner
- owner
- 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.
- on
- in
- at
- He realised the book in the toilet was something special, matching the binding of the work in the picture.
- suiting
- matching
- fixing