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Domitzer, Johann. Pflantzbüchlein.

What appears to be the earliest edition of this work, printed by
Gabriel Kantz, Zwickaw, 1529, was listed in Pritzel’s "Thesaurus literaturae botanicae" (Ed.2, 1872, no.2363), but has not since been authenticated. 
Copies of the "Pflantzbüchlein” were seen in preparation of the
Bradley Bibliography, but were cataloged too inadequately for identification 
with other records, and their library locations have been lost.

The following have been located in libraries

1530. Ein neüwes, fast hübsch, unnd nutzliches Pflantzbüchlin. Von mancherley 
artiger Pflantzung un Beltzung der Baüm ... M.D.XXX. Stadtbibliothek 
Mainz, reported by Güntz, Handb. Landw. Litt. 1:107, and
described by F. W. E. von Roth, Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen,
19:285-286 (1902). It has neither printer’s name nor place of publication, 
but the name of Johan Domitzer is at end of the preface.

1534. Ein newes Pflantzbüchlin, von mancherley artiger Pfropffung und
Beltzung der beum. Augspurg, Haynrich Steyner, 1534. Library of
Landbouwhoogeschool, Wageningen, Holland.

1551. Pflantzbüchlin von mancherley artiger Pfropffung und Beltzung der
bäum. Franckfurdt am Mayn, Herman Gülferich, 1551. British Museum.

1587. Pflantzbüchlein von mencherley artiger Lustgärten. Franckfurt am
Mayn, Nicolaus Basseus, 1587. Anonymous. U. S. Dept. Agriculture.

1598. Pflantzbüchlein von mancherley artiger Lustgärten. Leipzig, 1598.
Anonymous. Library of Landbouwhoogeschool, Wageningen.

Anonymous issues of 1587 and 1598 are probably alike. I think them
editions of the original work of 1529, but enlarged and much garbled. The
word "Lustgärten" in their titles may indicate the incorporation of much
of the "Lustgärten und Pflantzungen mit wunsamer zierd", first printed in
1530. Parts of both works are used in the introductory chapter on gardening 
in Lonitzer’s "Kreuterbuch", 1557 and later editions, which probably
gave rise to Haller’s query whether the "Pflantzbüchlein" could be a work
by Lonitzer. The nature and extent of the changes in later issues might
be obtained by comparing the 1534 and 1598 copies at Wageningen.

Many issues appeared without the author's name, or have it only in
the preface, and I suspect that Domitzer was an editor rather than author
of the work, who may have been an almost unknown Wolffgang Schmatz, a gardener
of Reichenbach in Saxony. (M. F. Warner — February, 1949)
        