WOLFF, Joseph.
Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845. To ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly ... Fifth edition.
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1848.
8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 429, [1]; very good in original blind-stamped cloth by John Gray of Edinburgh, spine lettered in gilt; some wear to extremities, spine slightly sunned, a few marks to covers; inscribed at head of title ‘Wm W. Leycester from an affte relative BDS June 3d 1848’, armorial bookplate of William Wrixon Leycester, postal address in Wolff’s handwriting pasted to front endpaper with note dated May 1848 beneath.
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Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845. To ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly ... Fifth edition.
Fifth edition of this popular account by the missionary and traveller Joseph Wolff (1795-1862). ‘In 1843 Wolff made a second journey to Bukhara in order to ascertain the fates of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and of Captain Arthur Conolly. He was sent out by a committee formed in London by Captain John Grover, which raised £500 for his journey. His mission involved him in the gravest peril, for Stoddart and Conolly had already been executed and their executioner was sent to dispatch Wolff also. He escaped almost miraculously and brought to England the first authentic news of the two officers. After his return, in April 1845, he published in London and New York his Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara ... which reached a seventh edition in 1852’ (ODNB).
