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LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" has fetched $172,630 at a British auction, Christie's auction house said.
Auctioneers at Christie's in London had expected the 1859 work, sold on the 150th anniversary of its publication, to pull in only $100,300, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Christie's officials said the copy was one of only 1,250 in the revolutionary scientific work's original run and sported the publisher's green cloth cover and gilt-decorated spine.
The auctioneers told the BBC the copy was kept for years on a bookcase in a guest bathroom at the owner's family home in Oxfordshire, England.
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