RANTZAU, HENRIK: Commentarius bellicus, libris sex distinctus, præcepta, consilia, et strategemata, pugnæ terrestris ac naualis, ex variis Eruditorum collecta scriptis, complectens. Frankfurt am Main: Palthenius 1595. With engr. portrait & woodcut vignette on title. (4) + 369 pp. Contp. vellum. Stamp on title. The copy has been owned by C.Horrebow, the son of the astronomer Peder Horrebow. With the bookplate of Otto Thott, famous Danish book collector. ¶ Henrik Rantzau (1525-1598), an influential politician who was also a considerable scholar and book collector. He corresponded with Mercator and contributed to Braun & Hogenberg's work.
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