Mahazor 'im kavanat ha-paitan shel sukkot, ke-minhag ashkenaz (Festival Prayerbook for Sukkot, According the Ashkenazi Tradition)
Amsterdam: Ha-Ahim Yosef, Ya‘akov, [and] Avraham, bene Shlomoh Props, [1767]. Hardcover. Three parts, octavo. [1, title], 32; 81; [1, title], 51ff. Printers device at titles. Text complete, and foliation continuous throughout first part despite apparent irregularities; third part with separate full title (identical to that of the first). Vocalized Hebrew text in square characters; Yiddish in German rabbinical faces. Contemporary sheep, gilt-tooled border (faded); gilt lettering piece at spine; marbled endleaves. Light wear at extremities, rear board rubbed dry. Occasional soiling, but a good copy in an intact, contemporary binding.
Collation: [unsigned leaf], [aleph]-[gimel]8, [he]6, [vav]2; [aleph]-[yud]8, [yud aleph]1; [unsigned leaf], [aleph]-[vav]8, [zayin]3. Chronogram date: [5]528 = 1767.
Eighteenth-century Jewish festival prayerbook (mahazor) for Sukkot according to the Ashkenazi tradition, accompanied by the Yiddish (Judaeo-German) commentary, Kavanat ha-Paitan. The typography of this prayerbook is notable; according to Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld, "in 1761, the greater part of the Athias printing material came into the possession of Joseph, Jacob and Abraham Proops. In their Yiddish Almanac for the year 5523 (1762-63) the brothers printed the following notice: ... On Wednesday, 21 Adar 5521 (25th February, 1761) we acquired what had long been hidden away as a most precious treasure, that is to say the matrices, moulds etc. made by those famous printers Joseph, Immanuel, and Abraham Athias. They are for all manner of square hebrew letters, for use with or without vowels and accents and for a number or Rashi and German rabbinical faces, large and small" (p. 303). Good. Item #49301
References: Vinograd, Amsterdam no. 1953, noting nine parts in the complete series of festival prayerbooks.
Price: $375.00