FARIN (François). La Normandie chrestienne, ou l'Histoire des archevesques de Rouen qui sont au catalogue des Saints. Contenant une agreable diversité des Antiquitez de Roüen non encor veuës, & plusieurs autres recherches curieuses. Avec un ample discours du Privilege de Sainct Romain [...] Rouen, Louys du Mesnil, 1659. In-4 of [10] ff. 724 pp. Tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title page (modern imitation binding). Margins of title leaf and last two ff. restored. Rare first edition of this work dedicated to the chapter of the Church of Rouen, from which Farin received, as a subscription for the printing of his book, the sum of 200 liv. It contains the lives of St Nicaise, St Mellon, St Victrice, St Godard, St Evode, St Prétextât, St Romain, St Ouen, St Ausbert, St Hugues, St Remy, St Léon. Ex-libris of La Germonière. (Frère I, 455.)