Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843—1845. To ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This copy bears a presentation inscription on the dedication leaf to a Major Campbell, and then some text in Farsi, also by the author. “Wolff, that most curious and tireless of missionaries, a converted Jew who set himself to convert the Jews, was commissioned by the Stoddard-Conolly Committee in 1843 to find out what had happened to these two officers.” (Blackmer). Blackmer, 1833; Wilson, 246.

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