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August (or Augustus), elector of Saxony (1526-1586)

Künstlich obst-garten büchlein.  1564.

No copy of this has been traced, but Dochnahl, Bib.
Hort., p.115, indicates this date for the original in
an entry for the reprint of 1802. Güntz, Handb. Landw.
Litt. 1:107-108, says the Elector Augustus, who caused
a manual of agriculture to be prepared for the use of
his chamberlains by Abraham von Thumbshirn, afterward
revised by Caspar Jugler, had himself written a book
on "Obstbau", which came out in a new edition at Magdeburg
in 1620.  Further information on this book and
its author is found in Der Teutsche Obstgärtner, 14:
134-138 (1800); 16:25-28 (1801); 17:241 &c (1802). It
is also possible that "Bartold Junghans Neu künstlich
obstgarten-büchlein" (1619), recorded by Haller, Bib.
Bot. 1:424, may be one of the issues of this book.

-----  Künstlich obstgarten-büchlein Churfurst Augusti zu Sachsen. 
Itzo auffs new von einem liebhaber des gartenbawes wiederumb
an den tag gegeben.  Gedruckt zu Magdeburg durch Andream Betzeln;
in verlegung Martin Gut. Buchführ. zu Berlin.  Im jahr 1620.

Title in Der Teutsche Obstgärtner, 16:26, and 17:245,
from copy in ’’Helmstädtischen Bibliothek", and in Güntz,
Handb. Landw. Litt. 1:107-108, from copy in Universitäts-
Bibliothek, Leipzig. This edition was reprinted in Der
Teutsche Obstgärtner, 17:241-266, 317-336, 381-402(1802)
with notes by F. v. Laffert, and is probably the same as
the issue of Weimar, 1802, listed by Dochnahl, p.115.

-----  Berlin, M. Guthen, 1636. 66 p. (Brit. Mus.; also quoted by Burchardt
from Rohr, Hanshaltungs-Bibliothek, p.365)

-----  Des Kürfursten August von Sachsen Künstliches obstgarten
büchlein. Nach der letzten original-ausgabe von 1620, mit anmerkungen 
des Herm von Laffert.  Hrsg. von Sickler.  64 p. Weimar,
Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1802. (Dochnahl, Bib. Hort., p.115; Wageningen 22893)
        