Tom Nealon

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Pazzo Books; condiments and other enthusiasms at hilobrow.com. ABAA/ILAB. Rare food, old books. @pazzobooks elsewhere. he/him

José Guadalupe Posado engraving of the Mexican coat of arms with an eagle eating a snake perched on a cactus.
cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a burro politician humping a Pueblan worker while a rich businessman stands by ready to hit him with a large branch? Can't lie, this one is hard to parse, but I think we get the general idea.
cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a skeleton brandishing a law riding a horse labeled despotism.
close up of an illustration of ironwort with an initial letter S below with two faces both, probably, thinking "fuck ice".
Illustrations of circular quadrats for typesetting on curves and, on the right, an example of their use.
title page of Bruce's Specimens of Printing Types, 1882
single folded 12mo sheet of The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Cherokee - one corner with a mouse nibble.
a pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket on endpapers. The bookplate on the left show two nude figures, a man and a woman, hanging out on a microscope stage (the man, naturally, turned away). The right bookplate with a landscape and labeled "Hazel Mills Prescott Her Husband's book"
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calavera beckoning a ku klux klan member in full robes with a burning cross amidst a pile of skulls.
Alfabeto Fisonomico Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Sta Teresa No 40, ca. 1899 26 illustrations of hand gestures, one of each letter.
Large engraving by Jose Guadalupe Posada of San Antonio de Padua holding a child and a feather with a border.
vignette image of San Antonio de Padua with song about a miracle in San Lyuis Potosi with headlines and text in various serif fonts and a sans serif shadow typeface for "San Antoio de Padua" (sic).
image of title page from \pliny's history - Aldus, 1559
finger pointing to possible names of mayonnaise in Grimod de la Reyniere's Manual de Amphitryons.
Calavera with sombrero and machete.
José Guadalupe Posada engraving of a skeleton beckoning to a Ku Klux Klan member with a burning corss standing amidst a pile of skulls.
Engraving picturing an earthquake in Chilapa in 1907 with people fleeing.
Engraving of a worker uprising in the Valle Nacional
Three panels of calaversa, the central wielding a leg bone - a satire on presidential politics.
Four pamphlets "Muestras para Borado" embroidery samples each with a seated woman on the cover embroidering.
Sheldon's Auxiliary Car Seat: engraving of men on a train, one sitting on an auxiliary seat that projects just in front of the other man's normal seat. Both have expressions suggesting they don't find this arrangement to be at all strange.
Green morocco book bindings, ca. late 18th century
Jingle Jangle Comics cover showing prince holding an anchor with his thumb in a pie
Old, dried, plant, green and light yellow leaves, on page of old cookbook.
le premier devoir d'un amphytron; kitchen scene with Amphytron greeting a gourmand.
Bibliotheque d'un Gourmand (table laden with food in foreground, booksehelves filled with food in background)
frontis and title pages of the 1st and 2nd editons of Grimod de La Reynière's Almanach des Gourmands showing differences in the impressions.
manicule with fancy cuff and green sleeve
front and rear cover of a book bound in paper marbled in red, yellow and black
marbled endpapers, big red and orange blobs with fblue and green in between
Engraving of a group of Knights on horseback in front of a castle with a guard at the gate.
Notes and small doodled portrait of a renaissance guy in a hat
Dieter Roth rabbit poop rabbit ca. 1970 sitting on kitchen table