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A08491 Onosandro Platonico, of the generall captaine, and of his office, translated out of Greeke into Italyan, by Fabio Cotta, a Romayne: and out of Italian into Englysh, by Peter Whytehorne; Strategicus. English Onasander.; Whitehorne, Peter. 1563 (1563) STC 18815; ESTC S120944 52,691 188

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