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Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf
Quick ReadRare Charles Darwin book to be auctioned on 150th anniversary of famous work
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LONDON (AP) — 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 Sunday 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 on Tuesday, the 150th anniversary...
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