Napoleon's will and memoirs sold
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The memoirs of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his unpublished will go under the hammer in Paris.
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A signed proof of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will be offered at auction in November.
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Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: The house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote Rigoletto is up for sale.
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The rights to publish Tony Blairâs memoir were bought by two divisions of Random House: Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada and Hutchinson in Britain.
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Props, paintings and statues from The Da Vinci Code are to be auctioned off to raise money for Lincoln Cathedral.
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Former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to terms with the Crown Publishing Group to write his memoirs, ending an extensive bidding war that involved more than a dozen publishers. Financial terms were not disclosed Monday, but Tenet's deal is widely believed to be worth at least seven figures.
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Nine records were set at the sale of Baroness Marion Lambert's photography collection at Phillips, de Pury & Company on Monday.
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These images of the original manuscript of George Washington's resignation speech, which he delivered in
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A letter written by Mahatma Gandhi is withdrawn from auction in London so it can be acquired by India.
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A collection of personal items belonging to late opera legend Maria Callas is to be sold later this year in Milan.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- The Badminton cabinet sold for $36.7 million at Christie's London to Vienna's Liechtenstein museum on behalf of Prinz Hans-Adam II.
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A copy of the Magna Carta has been sold for more than Â£10m to an American tycoon
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A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.
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A rare violin is sold for a record figure, "well in excess" of the previous top price of $3.54m (Â£1.8m).
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A hand-written book of stories by J.K. Rowling -- the author's first since the blockbuster Harry Potter series -- sold for 1.95 million pounds at auction on Thursday.
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La cucina dell'isola di Napoleone racconta una lunga storia di incontri tra popoli e scambi culturali. Un patrimionio fatto di gusti decisi
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Its gold-encrusted blade holds the secrets of the young Napoleon, who carried it into one of his legendary, seemingly doomed battles.