Pazzo opened in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale in 2003, moved to West Roxbury in 2008 and closed up shop to focus on rare books in 2014. While still generalists at heart, we focus on cookery, early printed books and literature.
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Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation
by Arthur James Johnes
London : Samuel Clarke , 1843 (click for more details)Aristotelis Historia de Animalibus
by Aristotle
Touslouse : Raymond Colomerium , 1619 (click for more details)Observations on Cup-Shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures in The Old World and in America [with] On Prehistoric Trephing [and] A Study of the Manuscript Troano
by Charles Rau; Cyrus Thomas; Robert Fletcher
Washington D.C. : Government Printing Office , 1881 (click for more details)Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1882-1883
by Powell, J.W. (dir)
Washington D.C. : Government Printing Office , 1886 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Pazzo Catalog 6: Refertus
One hundred and thirty-nine books and related items on food and drink from the 16th to the 20th century. Scappi's 1570 Opera, a tin blackbird pie toy, the first Mexican Cookbook from 1831, a binder full of hundred of canned fruit and vegetable labels and grocery displays, a French restaurant receipt from 1660 and much more.
Recent Catalogs
Pazzo Catalog 5: Rimpinzato
128 items on food and drink from the 16th to the 21st century. Art Nouveau cakes, Mexican cantina menus, 16th century humoral dieting for Spanish kings, Michoacán cuisine, Japanese seasonal menus and manuscript illustrations of desserts, butter churn broadsides and much (much) more.