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Author: Alvarez de Paz, P. Jacobi; P. Ioannem Camacho ed.
Title: De Vita Spirituali Perfecte Institutenda Compendium. Ex Operibus V.P. Iacobi Alvarez de Paz, Societatis Jesu, extractum Subauspiciis Augustissimae Deiparae, Eorundem Operum Suffectricis
Place: Valentia:
Publisher: Ex Typographia Claudii Antonio Mace,
Date: 1655
Item # : 206289
Sale Number   442
Lot Number   4
Sale Name    
Rare Books & Manuscripts with Americana Archives - Rock Art
Sale Date   12/02/2010
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 400
High Estimate   $ 600
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Description:
[4], 135, 12, [6] ff. (*4, A-Z4 Aa-Ll4, ¶-¶¶¶4, 4¶2), (4to) 20x13.5 cm. (7¾x5¼") period full limp vellum. Text in Latin. Second Edition Thus.
Second edition (first was 1650) of Juan Camacho's abridgment of the works of the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit mystic Alvarez de Paz. Nicely printed on good paper. Palau #9802
Condition:
Spine blackened; vellum lightly soiled; ties lacking; lower half of front free endpaper torn away; old ink note to title page; faint old dampstain to lower corner of text block; text block nearly separated from covers; text is overall quite clean and else very good.
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