Auction 112 Rare Hebrew Books, from the Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jun 12, 2025
Brooklyn, NY, United States

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 37:

(BIBLE,  

Sold for: $1,500
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax: $ 2,041.41
Start price:
$ 600
Estimate :
$1,000 - $1,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the lot's price and buyer's premium
Auction took place on Jun 12, 2025 at Kestenbaum & Company
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(BIBLE,  Judeo-German).


Translated by Yekuthiel b. Yitzchak Blitz.


With “To’aliyoth” (moral lessons) by the RaLBa’G on the Books of Yehoshua, Shoftim and Shmuel.

Title within architectural columns. Additional title showing Moses and Aaron, and vignette of Revelation at Mount Sinai. Privilege of King John III of Poland in Latin and Privilege of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arba Aratzoth). Divisional titles. Incipits historiated.


Several fore-edges worn, neat paper repairs, lightly stained. Modern boards. Folio.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 451; Darlow and Moule, 4485.


Amsterdam, Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi, 1676-1679.


The First Translation of the Tanach into Yiddish.