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 26:
BACHIAH BEN ASHER.
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BACHIAH BEN ASHER.
Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Chumash].
Title within woodcut architectural arch. On title, numerous signatures of former owners, all in Aschkenazic cursive script. Opening letters within floral woodcut vignettes.
With final leaf illustrating the Ten Sefiroth, lacking from most copies.
ff. 235, 235-246, (1). Some staining, few fore-edges worn, tears to ff. 238-9. Modern boards. Folio.
Vinograd, Cracow 147.
Cracow, Isaac ben Aaaron Prostitz, 1592-3.
Greatly influential encyclopedic work utilizing a wide variety of sources and based on the entire range of ‘Pardes’ exegesis. Especially noteworthy are both the Kabbalistic references as well as Midrashic interpretations, which include passages from heretofore lost Midrashim.
