[With special provenance and anti-theft proverb] M. Fabii Quintiliani Rhetoris

clarissimi oratoriarum intistutionem libri XII (...). Cologne, apud Iohannem Gymnicum, 1536, (32),783 p., finely bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin across wooden boards and with ribbed back, with 2 chiselled copper clamps, small 8vo.

Occ. with contemporary annotations in pen. With contemporary/ old owner's marks such as old label to spine. Accidental ink spill visible on top edge and spine head. The boards include portraits of writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucretius and Horace as well as those of Renaissance rulers such as Carolus and Franciscus. On the inside of the board an anti-theft proverb has been noted: "Fur alio tendas nulla hic occasio lucri hi laqueo duras frangere colla lucrum". Loosely translated: "Thief, go somewhere else, here is no opportunity for profit. Here you risk the profit of breaking your neck in the noose." This exact phrase appears in several books from the library of Claude Guilliaud, see e.g. the Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque d'un chanoine d'Autun, Claude Guilliaud, 1493-1551 (Autun, 1890), p. 157. Below the phrase is included the owner's name "Guilielmus Brandenburg B[ayreuth]" (1678-1726). On the title page the letters "G.W.B.D." have been stamped, for "Gräflich von Waldbott-Bassenheim'sche Domanialverwaltung". The counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim inherited the famous library of the monastery at Buxheim, which was shut down in 1803. The library was sold at auction in Munich in 1883 and 1884.