Rare first edition book found in guest toilet
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November 23, 2009, Monday
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AN auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Christie's auction house said yesterday the book, one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859, had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.
The book will be auctioned tomorrow, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famous work. Christie's said the book is likely to sell for 60,000 pounds (US$99,000).
Darwin's "The Origin of Species" outlined his theory of natural selection -- the foundation for the modern understanding of evolution.
Darwin was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to astronomer John Herschel and mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton.
Christie's auction house said yesterday the book, one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859, had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.
The book will be auctioned tomorrow, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famous work. Christie's said the book is likely to sell for 60,000 pounds (US$99,000).
Darwin's "The Origin of Species" outlined his theory of natural selection -- the foundation for the modern understanding of evolution.
Darwin was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to astronomer John Herschel and mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton.
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