Gerard Dubois - Historia ecclesiae Parisiensis - Paris, Franciscus Muguet, 1690. - Contemporary calf binding. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved headpiece and a historiated initial. xlviii, 824 p. Folio. Condition: Fair. Ex-libris on pastedown. Binding worn, spine damaged, water-stained throughout at the top of the pages. Otherwise in good condition. * Volume 1 of 2. A rare 17th-century history of the church and Catholicism in France. Dubois was a presbyter at the Basilica of Saint Martin in Tours. Dubois offers descriptions of cathedral buildings, crypts and church prisons, as well as the functions of the church throughout history.