THE DIARY OF COLONEL LANDON CARTER OF SABINE HALL 1752-1778. By LANDON CARTER, edited by Jack P. Greene.

CHARLOTTESVILLE [Virginia]: Published for the Virginia Historical Society [by] the University Press of Virginia, 1965. First Edition, with "Charlottesville 1965" on the title page, and "First Published 1965" on the copyright page.

TWO VOLUME SET. Hardcovers, 7x10 inches, 1204 total pages (V.I and V.II pages numbered consecutively), comprehensive Index at the end of Volume II.

VERY GOOD condition, covers show some light spine end wear, fading to the spine gilt lettering, and a bit of handling, overall solid, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A very presentable two volume set.

An important look at early Virginia plantation life, as lived by one of its prominent citizens.

About LANDON CARTER (from the National Humanities Center):

******Born in August 1710 into one of the wealthiest planter families of Virginia, Landon Carter was landed gentry. Educated in London, Carter returned at age sixteen and learned plantation management from his father, Robert "King" Carter. At age twenty-two his father died, leaving him eight plantations, and he married the first of his three wives (all of whom died before 1758). As was the norm for Virginia gentry, Carter became involved in public affairs, as a justice of the peace, member of the county court, and later, commander of the militia. In 1752 he was elected to the Virginia legislature, the House of Burgesses. Carter's diary presents a close look at his life as a wealthy planter, herbalist doctor to his family and slaves, three time widower, father mourning his young daughter's death, and distressed farmer during seasons of drought.******

About LANDON CARTER (from Wikipedia):

******Colonel Landon Carter, b.1710 d.1778, was an American planter and politician from Lancaster County, Virginia. Although one of the most popular patriotic writers and pamphleteers of pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary-era Virginia, he is today best known for his journal which described colonial life leading up to the American War of Independence: "The Diary Of Colonel Landon Carter...".

The Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary holds papers relating to Landon Carter...because of his importance in Virginia and the American colonies as a whole.

Carter left his heirs 50,000 acres of land and as many as 500 slaves.******

I would LOVE to read the diaries of Carter's 500 slaves in order to really learn about the man Carter and the world he was helping create; but I doubt they were given any paper, pens, education, etc. etc. etc. Will oligarchs ever change?

CAGLIOSTRO (Joseph BALSAMO) : La Franc-Maçonnerie et l'Occultisme au XVIIIe siècle (Freemasonry and Occultism of the 18th century). D'Apres des Documents Inedits (From Unpublished Documents). By Henri d'ALMERAS.

PARIS : Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, 1904. First Edition. TEXT IN FRENCH.

Hardcovers (front cover disbound but present),

leather covered spine and paper covered boards, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pagination: [2] blank prelim leaf, [1] first title page with small engraving of Cagliostro, [1] blank verso, [1] half title page, [1] Du Meme Auteur / List of Author's Previous Works, [1] Frontispiece leaf with tissue guard, [1] title page, [1] blank verso, 386 pages.

Condition: The front cover is disbound but present, the rear cover's spine fold is worn and tender but holding, the spine covering is chipped and peeling, the boards are worn at their edges and have some scratches and rubs. Internally, the pages are toned along their edges, there is a previous owner's signature on the first blank page, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A complete copy of this SCARCE 1904 work on the Freemason and Occultist, Cagliostro, by the noted historian Henri d'Almeras.

About CAGLIOSTRO (from Wikipedia):

******Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, b.1743 d.1795, was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (Joseph Balsamo).

Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death, but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle in 1833, who pronounced him the Quack of Quacks. W.R.H. Trowbridge in his Cagliostro: the Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic (1910), attempted a rehabilitation.

Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco credits to Balsamo the creation of the Egyptian Rite of the Freemasons and intensive work in the diffusion of Freemasonry, by opening lodges all over Europe and by introducing the acceptance of women into the community. Occult historian Lewis Spence comments in his entry on Cagliostro that the swindler put his finagled wealth to good use by starting and funding a chain of maternity hospitals and orphanages around the continent. Occultist Aleister Crowley believed Cagliostro was one of his previous incarnations.******

GARNETT YOUNG AND ASSOCIATES, by Garnett Young. Self-Published, San Francisco, undated but known to be 1960. Printed by The Filmer Brothers Press, San Francisco. First Edition. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, grey faux-leather covered boards, gilt titling on spine, 5.5" x 8.5", [xiv] +114 pages. Illustrated with a few b&w photographs. Basically an autobiography of the "Business Side" of Garnett Young and the pioneering electrical equipment companies with which he was associated, including Charles F. Sloane Co.; Brown, Spear, Sloane Co.; Simplex Wire & Cable; Telephone-Electric Equipment Co.; and his self named Garnett Young and Company. Condition: VERY GOOD book, just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a GOOD MINUS dustjacket that has several 1" closed edge tears, creasing to the bottom margin, and some soiling, but is bright and still doing its job.