Mayonado 2: Encore une fois
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Pazzo Books; condiments and other enthusiasms at hilobrow.com. ABAA/ILAB. Rare food, old books. @pazzobooks elsewhere. he/him
and here are some ICE resources from www.lucemass.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
and here are some ICE resources from www.lucemass.org
I have a tiny booth off to the side, look for the skulls
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have a tiny booth off to the side, look for the skulls
Bringing hundreds of these José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla engravings to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Boston Fair which, regrettably is the weekend after Día de los Muertos this year.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Bringing hundreds of these José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla engravings to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Boston Fair which, regrettably is the weekend after Día de los Muertos this year.
The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.
A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.
Here's the whole thing 11x16, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico, 1905.
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here's the whole thing 11x16, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico, 1905.
The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.
Nice shots of the shop in the background. The book there is Grimod de La Reynière's Manuel des amphitryons (Paris, 1808). I dug out Pliny's description of proto mayonnaise for the interview (from a 1559 Aldine ed), but it didn't make the cut.
July 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Nice shots of the shop in the background. The book there is Grimod de La Reynière's Manuel des amphitryons (Paris, 1808). I dug out Pliny's description of proto mayonnaise for the interview (from a 1559 Aldine ed), but it didn't make the cut.
I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.
July 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.
This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.
April 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.
A few famous ones, including Posada's contemporary/precursor Manuel Manilla's Calavera Tapatia.
April 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A few famous ones, including Posada's contemporary/precursor Manuel Manilla's Calavera Tapatia.
Calavera running for office, conmen (or a cat dressed as a conman) ready to take advantage of drunks and dupes, predatory waitresses, dancing.
April 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Calavera running for office, conmen (or a cat dressed as a conman) ready to take advantage of drunks and dupes, predatory waitresses, dancing.
A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)
April 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)
earthquakes, jealousy, and lots of firing squads
April 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
earthquakes, jealousy, and lots of firing squads
A lot of Posada's engravings were of current events: uprisings (in the Valle Nacional), rebellions (Veracruz 1912), floods, train derailments.
April 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A lot of Posada's engravings were of current events: uprisings (in the Valle Nacional), rebellions (Veracruz 1912), floods, train derailments.
Booklet covers featuring demons, cookery, burros, and a classic calavera depicting ideas for dispatching presidential candidates. The burro booklet features the printing house of Antonio Vanegas depicted on the rear - he printed almost all of Posadas works.
April 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Booklet covers featuring demons, cookery, burros, and a classic calavera depicting ideas for dispatching presidential candidates. The burro booklet features the printing house of Antonio Vanegas depicted on the rear - he printed almost all of Posadas works.
Cataloging a big collection of José Guadalupe Posada broadsides and I'm going to throw some up here. First off: booklets full of embroidery patterns, "children's theater" pamphlets, a calavera on a recruiting mission to a cemetery.
April 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cataloging a big collection of José Guadalupe Posada broadsides and I'm going to throw some up here. First off: booklets full of embroidery patterns, "children's theater" pamphlets, a calavera on a recruiting mission to a cemetery.
Shocked this didn't catch on. (from the ads at rear of an 1875 copy of Wrinkles and Recipes from Scientific American)
March 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Shocked this didn't catch on. (from the ads at rear of an 1875 copy of Wrinkles and Recipes from Scientific American)
Circulating library rules, Channel Islands, ca. early 1800s (from a 1605 edition of Rabelais)
March 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Circulating library rules, Channel Islands, ca. early 1800s (from a 1605 edition of Rabelais)
The first Elzevier ediiton of Rabelais in a nice early (but later) binding with decorative endpapers. With the bottle page, la dive bouteille, the divine bottle.
March 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The first Elzevier ediiton of Rabelais in a nice early (but later) binding with decorative endpapers. With the bottle page, la dive bouteille, the divine bottle.
His later in life cartoons are worth checking out - there is a nice Fantagraphics book on them www.fantagraphics.com/collections/... and a great article at The Comics Journal (that I pulled these images from)
March 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
His later in life cartoons are worth checking out - there is a nice Fantagraphics book on them www.fantagraphics.com/collections/... and a great article at The Comics Journal (that I pulled these images from)
Mock up a Rip Van WInkle interactive book by illustator, puzzle designer and natural born weirdo cartoonist George Carlson.
March 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Mock up a Rip Van WInkle interactive book by illustator, puzzle designer and natural born weirdo cartoonist George Carlson.
Botanical sample in an 1828 Viennese cookbook.
February 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Botanical sample in an 1828 Viennese cookbook.
The frontispieces for Grimod de La Reynière's Almanach des Gourmands, 1-8.
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The frontispieces for Grimod de La Reynière's Almanach des Gourmands, 1-8.