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Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ fetches $172,000 A rare first edition of "Origin of Species" that had languished for years on a toilet bookshelf sold Tuesday at auction for 103,250 pounds, or $172,000. On the same day, British authorities made an appeal for a stolen leather-bound notebook of Charles Darwin's. |
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