Pazzo Books

05/30/2017

A very cool printed shopping list in book form made for whaling voyages that I ran into today at an auction; printed in New Bedford, MA around mid (19th) century. 167 gallons of vinegar, hot sauce, mustard, 1000 lbs of cod, and some medicine (rum, gin, brandy, port, madeira).

05/03/2017

This copy of Tacitus (the 2nd edition after the first from 1473, but with the first printing of Agricola and other improvements; no printer, date or place, but Antonius Zarotus, Milan, 1487) was previously owned by poet C.W. Brodribb who wrote a poem, "The Incunabulum's Tale", about it. The poem is laid in and was published in The American Library Annual in 1908. He was obviously charmed by the bibliographer terms of art "sine loco, sine anno" (without place, without year). It's also sine nomine - without [printer's] name, but he didn't use that.

04/25/2017

One of my favorite printer's marks - from Henricus Petrus (from a recently cataloged copy of Munster's Dictionarium Trimlingue, 1530) -so dramatic.

04/18/2017

I nice bit on NPR focusing on the lemonade and the plague chapter.

Tom Nealon's new book searches through patchy historical records to trace subjects like how chocolate helped lead to war in the Caribbean, or the role a grain fungus played in the Crusades.

04/12/2017

I've been very lax here, but my new book, Food Fights & Culture Wars, which is a result of my love of old cookbooks, early books, and food, is out in the U.S., so I will try to at least point to a few bits of coverage where I don't seem too foolish or insane. Here's one: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/books/review/food-fights-and-culture-wars-tom-nealon.html

In “Food Fights and Culture Wars,” Tom Nealon presents a lavishly illustrated look at the impact of historical forces on cuisine.

11/10/2015

I am bringing this chained binding to the Boston Book Fair (Fri-Sat-Sun) this weekend. A great thing, so very evocative of the moment when the middle ages slid into the Renaissance. The book is part 1 of book 3 of Florentinus: Summa Theologica printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1477.

11/05/2015

Our new catalog of 111 food books is now available - we'll be bringing them all to the Boston Fair at the Hynes next week. http://www.pazzobooks.com/catalogs.php

09/12/2015

Pazzo will be in Greenpoint next week for the 2nd annual book fair along with a terrific group of dealers and special events - come see us!

A curated collection of top dealers - rare books, art prints, photos, ephemera.

12/11/2014

The story of an 18th century French book that was one of the first things I wrote for HiLobrow is now up (in a slightly different form) at the ABAA blog:

http://www.abaa.org/blog/post/value-of-ephemera-found-in-old-books

< previous December 11th, 2014History Between the Pages Tom Nealon Tom Nealon runs the online rare bookshop Pazzo Books specializing in early printed books, cookery and literature. In his spare time he works on barbecue techniques in the test pit in his backyard. He can be found at pazzobooks.com a…

11/03/2014

Stuffed: Pazzo Cookery, Catalog One is back from the printer! Download a PDF here: http://www.pazzobooks.com/catalogs.php or order a picture and recipe filled hard copy.

04/03/2014

Recipe for the Filipino pork blood stew dinuguan in the first US cookbook with Filipino recipes (George Kwon's Oriental Culinary Art, 1933).

03/14/2014

Last day for books is tomorrow - Saturday the 15th - bookcases will be ready starting on the 19th. Hopefully. It has been a hoot! xx