Wolff, Joseph

Estimate

500 - 800 GBP

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Description

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. London: for the Author by John W. Parker, 1845
paper

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 132mm.), (vol.1) xx, 352pp.; (vol.2) xvi, 336pp., 16pp. adverts dated July, 1845, 9 lithographed plates, original blindstamped green ribbed cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase, some plates spotted, spines and edges faded

Provenance

Anthony Lefroy, armorial bookplate

Literature

Wilson p.246; Yakushi (1994) W206

Catalogue Note

Wolff arrived too late in Bukhara to save Stoddart and Conolly, who had been executed by the emir as spies, and was lucky to escape with his own life.

The work also describes his early life in Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Georgia, Turkey and Persia.