Rare Hebrew Books,
Including Six Incunabula
From the Collection of the late
Dr. Michael D. Paul of
St. John’s, Newfoundland.
* With a Fine Isidor Kaufmann Portrait Painting.
Montreal born Dr. Michael David Paul (1954-2024) was a respected professor of medicine specializing in nephrology who devoted himself to the citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador for more than forty years.
Alongside his teaching and medical practice, Dr. Paul served as the long-time President of the small Jewish community of St. John’s. His many interests included travel, philanthropy, but especially book-collecting - alongside related study and research.
Of all the many clients I have been privileged to know in my forty year book career, Dr. Paul was among the most learned and certainly the most interesting.
May his soul receive its eternal reward and may his memory forever be blessed.
DEK
Spring, 2025.
* Most of the books offered here from Dr. Paul’s library, contain his small embossed stamp, generally affixed to the title-page.
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LOT 6:
ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Mirkeveth HaMishneh [commentary ...
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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.
Mirkeveth HaMishneh [commentary to the Book of Devarim].
FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural floral border. On final page, printer's marks of Tobias Foa and Joseph Shalit (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 19-20).
ff. 145, (1). Ex-library, some browning and staining, title repaired affecting portion of upper right corner, tape repairs on f. 110. Signature of censor on final page. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio.
Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 12.
Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa, 1551.
THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA, a walled town in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. The introduction by the editor-publisher recounts how the press came to be established.
This copy with the rare unnumbered final leaf containing a full-page poem by Azariah di Rossi (author of Me’or Einayim).
