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 13:
ALSHEICH, MOSHE.
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Sold for: $500
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ALSHEICH, MOSHE.
Shoshanath Ha’Amakim [commentary to Shir HaShirim - the Song of Songs].
FIRST EDITION.
ff. 60. Tiny wormhole on last two leaves. Signed by censor at end. Modern morocco-backed boards. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Venice 764.
Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1591.
A native of Adrianople, Turkey, R. Moshe Alsheich (1508-93) settled in Tzfath, where he was was ordained by R. Yoseph Karo (upon whom had been conferred the reintroduced Semicha of R. Ya’akov Berab). Part of the extraordinary cabal of saintly scholars during Safed’s golden age, R. Moshe Alsheich was a teacher of R. Chaim Vital. Alsheich is one of the few rabbis to be universally known as ‘Hakadosh’ - The Holy.
