LE LABOUREUR (Claude). Les Mazures de l'abbaye royale de l'Isle Barbe les Lyon ou recueil historique de tout ce qui s'est fait de plus mémorable en cette église, depuis sa fondation jusques à présent : avec le catalogue de tous ses abbez, tant réguliers que séculiers. Paris, Nicolas Couterot, 1681. Two volumes in one small in-4 volume, full contemporary brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated. (16) ff, 316 pp, (1) blank f., 4ff, 674pp, (6) ff. Heads damaged, rubbed, one jaw split over 4 cm, paper slightly browned. Partly first edition. The first volume originally appeared in 1665. The "most reliable ancient nobiliary we have on the Lyonnais" (Saffroy). History of this famous convent founded near Lyon, one of the oldest in France. The author is very reliable, providing proof of the nobility of the monks and a first-rate genealogical tool for the Lyonnais region.