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    By Rev. Joseph Wolff
    New York   Harper & Brothers
    9.5" by 6" [1] xxi, [22]-384pp.
    The uncommon first US edition of this illustrated work, following Reverend Wolff's journey to Bokhara in search of two missing British officers.
    By Rev. Joseph Wolff

    1845 Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in The Years 1843-1845 To Ascertain The Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly

    New York   Harper & Brothers
    9.5" by 6" [1] xxi, [22]-384pp.
    The uncommon first US edition of this illustrated work, following Reverend Wolff's journey to Bokhara in search of two missing British officers.
    £175.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 979K3
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first US edition, First published in the UK in two volumes earlier the same year. This US edition is complete in one volume.

    With a frontispiece and eight further plates. Collated complete.

    In the scarce publisher's original cloth. 

    'Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara' details Wolff's journey into Central Asia to investigate the fate of two British officers, Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly. He ultimately discovered that both had been executed by the Emir of Bokhara. Despite the Emir calling for Wolff's own execution, he ultimately escaped and shortly after published this work. 

    Condition

    In the publisher's original blind stamped cloth. Externally generally smart with bumping to the extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth of head and tail of the spine. Prior owner's bookplate to front paste down. Internally binding has failed between pages 194 and 206 with gatherings detached but present. Pages generally bright and clean with scattered spotting, much heavier to the plates and first and last few pages.

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