Rare book found in loo
AP
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An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species - which was discovered in a family's guest toilet in southern England.
Christie's auction house said the book - one of about 1250 copies first printed in 1859 - had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.
The book will be auctioned this week on the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famous work. Christie's said the book is likely to sell for 60,000 pounds (NZ$138,751).
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