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London: Published, for the author, by John W. Parker, West Strand, 1846. Fourth edition (first published London, 1845), complete with the frontispiece (earlier editions contained either 8 plates and the frontispiece or four portraits). 8vo. xxvii, 515 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Col. Charles Stoddart and Capt. Arthur Connolly were executed as British spies by the Emir of Bokhara in 1842. Blackmer sale 1109 (for the New York, 1845 edition): "Wolff brought the first authentic account of the fate of the two officers to England having been commissioned to do so by a committee headed by Captain John Grover: they had been beheaded. Their executioner had been instructed to dispose of Wolff in the same way but he escaped after a series of remarkable adventures. A Jew who converted to Christianity, he spent much of his life attempting to persuade other Jews to follow the same course. His travels were often beset by extraordinary difficulties but his enthusiasm and vitality enabled him to endure,… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Rebound in sympathetic modern half-leather and marbled papercovered boards. Illustrated. Previous owner's name stamp on title page and on top and bottom page edges, scattered light foxing, mostly on the plates.