891J . Diego Álvarez de Paz, S.J. (1560-

Thesaurus vitae terrestris & coelestis cujus opulentia immensitas, duratio aeternitas: seu opusculum de virtutibus, continens earum naturam, incitamenta, actiones, & humilem a Deo postulationem.

Title page of 'Thesaurus vitae terrestris & coelestis' by Diego Álvarez de Paz, featuring Latin text and publication details.

Vienna, Joannis Jacobi Kürner 1669. Price $2,900

Vintage book bound in textured brown leather with wooden boards and tow clasps. The edges are gilt, showing signs of wear.

Duodecimo °. Signatures: π⁴ A-N¹² O⁶. From the library of Baron von Erberg (title stamped “Erberg” with a crown above it). Bound in a textured calf binding over wooden boards and tow clasps all edges gilt.   

Álvarez de Paz / Diego Álvarez de Paz, S.J. was a Spanish Jesuit mystic and spiritual theologian whose career was mostly in colonial South America, especially in Peru/Andes, and who held high administrative roles within the Jesuit structure there.

After arriving in Peru, he served as professor of theology, scripture, etc., in Jesuit colleges. He was rector of Jesuit colleges in various cities (e.g. Quito, Cuzco) in the Andean region. He died on 17 January 1620 in Potosí (in what is now Bolivia) while on a journey; his reputation was such that the city reportedly came out to greet him, and even workers in the silver mines halted their work that day in his honor. His body was often said to have remained incorrupt, and he was reputed to have had mystical gifts (ecstasies, prophecy)

VD 17, 12:103730 E (only 1 copy in the Bavarian State Library). deBacker-Sommervogel vol I col. 225 Nº2 Boston College has a copy as well.