A FIRST edition of Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking work On The Origin Of Species sold for £15,625 at auction.
The book, published 150 years ago, transformed science with its theories on evolution and natural selection.
Only 1,250 were produced in the book’s first print run, back in 1859.
The rare copy auctioned yesterday was found in a family home near Inverness.
It fetched just over its estimated value of £15,000 when it went under the hammer at Lyon and Turnbull, in Edinburgh.




