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----- [Danish] En nyttig Plante Bog, om Mange Slags artige 
Imper oc Poder, oc huorledis mand skal saette allehande
Fruct oc Trae. Kjøbenhavn, 1602. (Pritzel, 1st ed., no.
2674; Mariboe, p.32, no.253; Wanning, Bot* Tidsskr. (1880),
12:46; Bay, Bot. Tidsskr. (1890), 17:317)
The Danish version seems to be generally known,
altho we do not find it in Kat. Landb. Bib. København. 
Pritzel credits this 1602 edition to "Bib.
Med. Henrici Fuiren," i.e. collection of Henricus
Fuiren M.D. It may possibly be listed in "Rariora
musei Henrici Fuiren med. Doct., quae Academiae regiae 
Hafniensi legavit, publici juris facta a Thoma 
Fuiren" (Hafniae, 1663), copies of which are in
Brit. Mus. and Bib. Nat. Paris.
Danish bibliographers appear to be ignorant of
the very much earlier German work from which the
"Plantebog" was probably translated. Bay's supplement 
(1890) to the outline of Danish botanical
literature of Warming (1880), says the latter suggests 
that the "Plantebog" is a translation of the
Latin "De stirpium cultura" published at Frankfurt
in 1547, altho Warming himself does not explicitly
say so. But evidently neither Warming nor Bay was
aware of the German original, as they cite nothing
earlier than the Latin of 1547. There is even considerable 
doubt whether there ever was a Latin edition, 
since the only authority that can be discovered 
for the Latin "De stirpium cultura" (1547) is
Camerarius, who in his "De re rustica opuscula nonnulla" 
(Noribergae, 1577, 52d leaf), does not give
a Latin title, but enters the work as "Ioannis Donitzer 
pflantzbüchlein. in 8. anno 1547. Francof."
The Latin title used by Seguier, Pritzel and others 
is credited to Camerarius, but this 1547 book
certainly had a German title, and was presumably
a German work. (MFW)

----- ----- Kjøbenhavn, 1635. 33 p. (Danmarks Havebrug 
(1920), p.717-718; Mariboe, p.32, no.253)
Danmarks Havebrug gives a brief description of
this edition and reproduces its title-page. Mariboe 
is authority for the paging.

----- ----- Kjbøenhavn, 1639. (Mariboe, l.c.; Winther. 
Lit. Sci. Nat. Dania &c Enchiridion (1829), p.151)
Three issues of the Danish work are generally
given by bibliographers, but only the one of 1635
has been adequately described. (MFW)

        