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Rense, Paige (editor). Architectural Digest 7/86 Jane Seymour. Los Angeles CA: Architectural Digest Publications, 1986.

Architectural Digest 7/86. The magazine is in NEAR FINE condition with minor shelfwear on wrapper. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects.COVER;West Highland White Terrier, Thomas Earl, circa 1870. Oil on board; 10" x 8" Richard Green, London.TITLES: Peter Quennell-The Perfumed Princess/Russell Lynes Observes-Art for Our Sake/Art Notebook-The Venerable House of Agnew/Alternate States-Country and City Addresses of Michael and Phyllis Steiner Photography by Peter Vitale/Creole Cottage in New Orleans-An Architect's Faubourg Marigany Revival-Photography John Rogers/An American eye-Creative Creations in a Pennsylvania Farmhouse Photography by Peter Vitale/A Unifying Vision-American Modernism in a Manhattan Duplex Interior by David Laurance Photography by Jaime Ardiles- Arce /Courting the Sun-Light Touch for a California Ranch House Interior by Michael Taylor Photography by Russell MacMasters/Mirror Image-Contemporary Reflections in a Florida Penthouse Interior by Michael de Santis Photography by Jaime Ardiles-Arce/Provence Provenance-Robert Courtright and Bruno Romeda in the South of France Photography by Pascal Hinous/Villa del Rio-Tropical Pavilions in Acapulco Architecture by Diego Matthai Photography by Russell MacMasters/Art: Beautiful Breeds-Endearing Portraits of Man's Best Friend/Antiques: In a Mughal Garden-Refinements from an Age of Indian Splendor/Architectural Digest Visits: Jane Seymour Interiorr by Jonathan Barnett and Jon Mandl Photography by Mary E. Nichols/Sentinels of Memory-Totem Poles of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians Photography by Dick Busher/Historic Houses: The Lord Mayor's Mansion-Pomp and Protocol in the City of London Photography by Derry Moore/Architecture: Stanley Tigerman Interior by Richard Himmel Photography by Tony Soluri/ Paperback condition: Near Fine

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NEMIUS, Joannes (Jan GOVERTS from 's-Hertogenbosch). Ulularum speculum, alias Triumphus humanae stultitiae, vel Tylus Saxo, nunc primum Latinate donatus. (Utrecht, Herman van Borculo?), 1563.
Second edition of one of the rarest Tyl Ulenspiegel (Till Owlglass) versions: the first adaptation of the entire story of Tyl Ulenspiegel in verses: the adaptation in Neo-Latin by Joannes Nemius (c. 1520-end 16th century). These tales of funny pranks were first published in a book that was first printed around 1500 as <I>Ein kurzweiliges Buch von Till Eulenspiegel aus dem Lande Braunschweig </I>(A Brief Book on Till Owlglass from Braunschweig Country), and attributed to Hermann Bote. It is one of the most popular books ever that originates in German, and has been translated into many languages. The book consists of farce tales, and Till is a clown. The very popular text of the Ulenspiegel circulated in German and Dutch prose versions in Northwest Europe and Nemius has based his Neo-Latin poetical version on the Dutch edition published by Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten in Antwerp between 1525 and 1546. Nemius's text was first published in Utrecht, by Herman Borculo in 1558 with the title <I>Triumphus humanae stutitiae, vel Tylus Saxo</I>, and reprinted in Zutphen by C. Lomeyer in 1641. The approbation at the end of the present edition is taken from the first Utrecht edition, mentioning Herman Borculo as the printer. Whether our second edition is actually also printed by Borculo is not certain, but the <I>STCN</I> attributes the edition to him. The booklet is dedicated to Simon Pelgrom and printed in italics and roman marginalia; on the verso of the title are laudatory poems by Petr. Apherdianus and Ch. Schindelius.The poet and humanist Joannes Nemius was born in 's-Hertogenbosch and took his Latinized name from his birthplace: '(Duke's)-bosch' = forest = nemius. He has matriculated at the University of Cologne in 1537 and became a teacher of Latin and rector of the Latin schools at Nijmegen, Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch. He was a fiery admirer of Erasmus and wrote his Ulenspiegel adaptation in the spirit of Erasmus's <I>Laus stultitiae</I>, referring even to its title. It is a description on the 'World upside down' also in the tradition of the 'Narrenschiff' or 'Ship of Fools', centred on the topoi 'Mundus reversus' and 'Memento mori'.
Fine copy of this rare edition.
<I>STCN </I>(1 copy only: A'dam, UL, ed. attributed to Borculo, Utrecht, with the add. 'Not in TB'); <I>VD 16</I> ZV2293; cf.<I>Typ.. Bat. </I>3583 (1558 edition); Adams U-37;<I> </I> <I>NNBW</I> VIII, 1208-9; Nauwelaerts, 'De geschriften van J. Nemius', in: <I>De Gulden Passer</I>, 28 (1950), pp. 104-9; M. Winkler, <I>Der Lateinische Eulenspiegel des Joannes Nemius</I> (<I>Frühe Neuzeit</I>, 24; 1995), pp. 24-5, 55 (with ill. of title) and <I>passim</I>.

8vo. Modern dark-blue half morocco, marbled boards. Woodcut vignette of an owl holding a mirror with the motto'Ut sapiens, fias, cum ululis ululare memento' (to become wise, consult the owls) on title. (38) lvs.(collation: A-D8, E6-2 (E7-8, both blank, lacking)).

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