Darwin book 'to fetch £60,000'
A FIRST edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking book Origin of Species, which languished for years in a toilet, will go under the hammer tomorrow, on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
Christie's auction house said the book, estimated to reach 60,000, was bought by a family for a few shillings in a shop about 40 years ago.
It has since been kept on a bookcase in the guest lavatory at their home in the Oxford area.
Christie's said the son-in-law of the current owners was at an exhibition on Darwin and realised the book was special.
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