ne Vaeuraeo interprete. [Printer's device] LVTETIAE,
Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.

Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf _Ad lectorem_ and
one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed
by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful
seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the
printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto _Noli altum
sapere_, without the addition _sed time_.

Renouard, _Annales de l'impr. des Estienne_, 2^e ed., p. 106; adds to
his description of the volume the following note: "Dedie au cardinal de
Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tire sur velin un exemplaire que depuis
l'on a vu relie en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une tete en or sur la
couverture. Il a passe dans une Bibliotheque inconnue." The present copy
answers completely to this description and is without doubt the
dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco,
browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on
the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title
page _N. Tetel_, _1644 datum Remis_ and _Claude Henry Corrard_; on the
cover linings _ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey_(?); _Ce livre
appartient a m^{lle} Jean Collot_.

By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of
"Editions Stephaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires
imprimes sur velin." It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen
of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.

Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of
scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so
interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he
does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry,
certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a
physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions
of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with
ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving
the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no
vellum copy of his books is known.

From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms