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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(BIBLE, Chumash and Haphtaroth).
Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis.
Amsterdam, for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva, 1726.
Six parts bound together in one volume. Engraved rococo title by Bernard Picart prior to each part. Depicting putti supporting an open Torah Scroll and coronet above, with vignettes below, depicting Biblical episodes from the lives of Samuel, Moses and David.
EACH OF THE SIX TITLE-PAGES FINELY HAND-COLORED.
Letterpress title in Spanish and Hebrew.
* Bound With: Solomon de Olivera’s Calendario including all three folding tables at end of Volume VI. (1726).
ff. (6), 446, (6). Lightly discolored in places. Contemporary calf, upper cover with Hebrew gilt-tooling: ‘David Shalom.’ Rebacked, lacking clasps. Thick 8vo.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 1292.
A Resplendent Contemporary Hand-Colored Copy, Finely Bound.
With six exquisite contemporary hand-colored engraved historiated title-pages by Bernard Picart, this was the only Hebrew book for which Picart prepared engravings.
He was of course intimately familiar with the Jewish Community in Amsterdam due to his monumental ‘Ceremonies, Moeurs, et Costumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde.’ The cartouches on the opening title allude to the names of the three sponsors of the edition.
A delightful Bible “famed for its beautiful type and for its accuracy.” M.H. Gans, Memorbook p. 186, no. 10 (illustrated).
