A machzor with Kavanat HaPaytan, Ashkenasi custom with German translation and Hadrat Kodesh. Amsterdam, printed by the orphans of Shlomo Proops, [1750]. Two parts.
Part 1: Volume of Yom Kippur. 27, 22, 164 leaves. Antique leather and wood cover, with buckle remnants.
Part 2: Pesach and Shavuot with special title page, decorated with engraving. 29, 12, 111; 72 leaves. Antique leather cover, fancy, with impressed dedication from the widow of the printer Shlomo Proops: "This machzor of 4 parts in a donation from Mrs. Sarah widow of Rabbi Shlomo Proops Cohen Tzedek to the New Beit HaKnesset in 1752".
The Proop family's printing press existed in Amsterdam for 150 years, from 1690-1849, when it was passed on the the Levison brothers. The first printer was Rabbi Shlomo Proops, who printed more than 40 years until his death in 1734. After his death, his sons and his widow continued the printing business and signed their names (Yoseph, Ya'akov and Avraham) on the title pages of the books. The dedication is from the widow of the founder of Proop Printing Press, Rabbi Shlomo, and it was impressed on the cover 18 years after his death.
Varied size and condition.