translated from Spanish: Sell first edition of “Origin of species” in $272,983

Mexico.-the copy of the first edition of “Origin of species” of the British Charles Darwin auctioned today in Mexico, it reached a price equivalent to 272.983 dollars, i The Morton House nformo. Read more: the lagoon in which lived the ‘Dios de el Trueno’ first edition of “Origin of species” of Charles Darwin | EFE read more: famous bakery fired after stealing a viejitoEl dealer price reached by the copy of 1859 Edition was 5.050.200 Mexican pesos (272.983 dollars), a record sale for the Department of books in its 30 years of operations, explained the company in a statement. House auctioneer opened the bidding by the copy of Darwin at a minimum price of 52.083 dollars.
to the auction attended by “several interested in staying this historic book”, he told Efe an auction house source commenting on the high price of sale registered. 

The book was sold in Mexico. Photo: EFE book auctioned in Mexico corresponds to the first edition that consisted of 1,250 copies and is one of the 23 that were intended as a courtesy copy to be presented to people close to the editor. 
This work of Darwin (1809-1882), who changed the course of humanity, was part of the auction “Books of explorers and travelers, charts and maps, geography, science and religion”. 

The owner who put it up for sale bought it in 1993 in an auction of the House Swann Galleries in New York according to the receipt delivered to House Morton.
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