Search Results: narrative of a mission to bokhara by wolff rev joseph

John W. Parker, 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Rebound in sympathetic modern half-leather and marbled papercovered boards.

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

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1852 8vo. original grey green blind-stamped cloth gilt (rear board watermarked, penetrating in one spot through to last few pages, rubbed & a little bumped with slight wear to extremities, slightly sunned & marked, upper hinge tender, small binder's label to rear pastedown, a few spots in text, correction to date on p. vi [possibly by Wolff], otherwise internally clean); pp. xxii (last blank), 346. A very good copy. Author's presentation copy. Inscribed to FFE 'Hugh Horsfall, Jos. Wolff' with cipher.. Signed by Author. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover. VG-.

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.

London: Pub. for the author by John W. Parker,, 1846. Portrait litho engraved by Dickinson & Son frontispiece. xxvii, 495pp. Fine publishers green buckram with gilt titles to blind decorated spine. Matching blind dec. front and rear boards. A fine complete copy with no fading, inscriptions, wear or marks. [nb the first and earlier editions contained either 8 plates and the frontispiece or four portraits).. Thrid Edition. Hardback. Fine. large 8vo.