‎ALVAREZ DE PAZ, Jacobus (1560-1620:‎
‎(On spine) Opera Spiritualia. II & III: II) De exterminatione mali, et promotione boni Libri quinque ... Operum Tomus II. Editio prima: Accurata: unâ cum Indicibus necessariis. Cum privilegio Regis.III) ALVAREZ DE PAZ, Jacobus: De inquisitione pacis, sive Studio orationis, libri quinque. sive Operum spiritualium. Tomus tertius. Editio novissima recognita, & nunc primùm in Germania edita.‎

‎Lugduni (Lyon), apud Horatium Cardon, / Moguntiae (Mainz), sumptibus Antonii Hierati, excudebat Ioannes Volmari, 1613 / 1619, gr. in-4to, 2 col., II) 25 leaves (of 26, title leaf is lacking, library stamp on letter of dedication). margin cut short (part of outer ruling lines cut off in places), light browning.1666 columes + 13 leaves (Index; Printer's mark on last page: Lugduni, typis Ioannis Iullieron, Anno MDCXIII)III) 18 leaves, title with woodenggraved printer's device + 1940 col. + 17 leaves, ruled columns and overall type area, browning strong in places, library-stamp and hw. library name, two early 19th century half leather bindings on raised bands and with corners, boards covered by ordinary marbled paper, some rubbing and scrapes, mainly to borders and corners, one hinge starting, gilt title and vol. number on spines, vol. III with original wooden boards, original blindstamped losange in the center distinguisable on both boards but covered by marbled paper (apart from this difference both bindings are looking identical).‎

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‎First edition of Alvarez' second work (title page missing in this copy), and second edition of Alvarez' third work. The first edition of his third work was published in Lyon, 1617.Of all the Jesuit authors of this period, however, Alvarez de Paz was the first to make a complete synthesis of ascetical and mystical theology. Other writers had composed treatises that touched upon both the ascetical and mystical phases of the spiritual life, but they were books of spiritual direction rather than books of spiritual theology. Alvarez de Paz labored in Peru, where he wrote his books in Latin and then had them. published in France (likely through fear of the Spanish Inquisition). The titles of his three published volumes indicate the vastness of the theological project that he had envisioned: «De vita spirituali ejusque perfectione» (1608), «De exterminatione mali et promotione boni (1613)», and «De inquisitione pacis sive studio orationis» (1617). He had also intended to write a volume on the active life of the apostolate but he never finished it. ...” (Jordan Aumann in «The Christian spirituality in the catholic tradition; online).“Hunter says of the three folio volumes of his works: "Summi aestimantur; rara et cara sunt". ... The work has been widely used in compendiums, extracts, and translations. In the opinion of a recognized authority on mysticism, Father Poulain, S.J., writing in Vacant, "his bent is not so much to observe patiently, as to philosophize and display much erudition. He is the first to use the expression oratio affectiva, implying a species of contemplation or meditation in which the affections dominate. ... A famous mystic of the Society of Jesus, ... entered the Society in 1578, taught theology and philosophy at Lima, and was Provincial of Peru. He acknowledged to his confessor that, during all the distracting occupations of twenty-five years, his union with God had never been interrupted. Sometimes, during his sermons, he fell into ecstasy and had to be carried from the pulpit. The fame of his sanctity was so great in South America, that, when he arrived, in a dying condition, at Potosi, the whole city came out to receive his blessing. On the day of his death 100,000 men in the silver mines stopped work to assist at his obsequies. He is said to have had the gift of prophecy, and it is reported that after his death his body remained incorrupt. ...” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, online). De Backer-S. I/252ff., Nr. 2 and 3. ‎