Lot 214: PINET, ANTOINE DU.

PLANTZ [I.E. PLANS], POURTRAITZ ET DESCRIPTIONS DE PLUSIEURS VILLES ET FORTERESSES, TANT DE L'EUROPE, ASIE, & AFRIQUE, QUE DES INDES, & TERRES NEUUES. .LYON: IAN D'OGEROLLES, 1564.
First edition, folio (308 x 203mm.), an imperfect copy but containing approximately 55 woodcuts, many after Munster, comprising 3 double-page maps (cordiform world after Apianus, Europe and Germany), 7 half-page maps, 18 double-page views (including Lyon, Bordeaux, Geneva, Frankfurt, Florence, Venice, Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cusco and others), and 27 illustrations (including Mexico city), colophon leaf at end, nineteenth-century calf gilt, [Alden 564/15; Sabin 62940; Shirley, Mapping of the World, 82], lacking c1-2 (pp.21-24), e1-2 (pp.45-48), o2-3 (pp.135-138), slight staining or spotting, small hole in centre-fold of world map, lacking small section at head of spine; sold not subject to return

This work is not to be confused with Pinet's earlier work, Historia plantarum (Lyon, 1561), the "plantz" of the title being "plans" rather than "plantes". The work appears to be rare, only one copy (from the Signet Library) being recorded at auction on ABPC since 1975.