Author: Wolff, Rev. Joseph.
Title: NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA, In the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly.
Description: John W. Parker ..., 1846. 4th Ed. xxvii + 515pp. Mounted litho. port. frontis. Ex-libris George Wilbraham, light browning, upper hinge cracked, original blind embossed green cloth, light spotting, spine faded and chipped. ¶ ODNB Joseph Wolff (1795-1862), missionary ‘... 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 ... 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 ...’

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