wolff rev joseph (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Clean copy in good dustwrapper. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Clean copy in good dustwrapper. . . . .

Hardback. Edited and abridged, with an introduction by Guy Wint. 254pp Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1969. Very good in dust jacket.

4th Ed. xxvii + 515pp. Mounted port. frontis. From the Libraries of Professor Malcolm Yapp and E. Robertson, some browning with prelims. foxed, hinges cracked, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth, corner frayed, spine faded and chipped, some splits to joints. Inscribed to half title 'Miss Emily ? from Joseph Wolff Aug. 26, 1847.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 .' US$184.

5th edition brown cloth with gilt lettering hardcover. No dj. 429p. Spine sunned, back endpapers water stained and worn. Rear board has buckled but internally it is very good. Ink inscription on half title page which appears to be author's signature.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG-. Seventh Edition. 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.

First edition; 8vo; some light marginal toning and dust-soiling, very occasional light spotting; publisher's quarter calf over blue cloth, heavy loss to spine, boards detached but present, extremities rather rubbed, dark top edge, others speckled blue; a fair copy. Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) was a Messianic Jewish missionary born in Weilersbach, Germany. His father David was a Rabbi. Joseph left home at 11 and travelled for six years, eventually converting to Catholicism and later training as a missionary at the seminary of the Collegio Romano in Rome. Later in life he became a member of the Church of England. Wolff travelled widely during his lifetime and was known as 'the missionary to the world'. He published several journals of his expeditions, the best known of which is offered here.

Original Cloth. Zustand: Good. Fifth Edition. xxv, 429 pp., half-title, title, original embossed cloth, faded & worn at spine, title gilt on spine, author's presentation copy inscribed in English and Persian verso front cover and front end paper, light scattered foxing mainly to end leaves, otherwise copy in good condition. Joseph Wolff was a British missionary who converted from Judaism to Christianity. He travelled between 1821 and 1826 to Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, and Aleppo. In 1828 he began another journey visiting Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Armenia, Khurassan, Bokhara and Kabul. He describes the countries he travelled into giving new information about the Moslems of Central Asia. Wolf continued his journey from Afghanistan into India, Egypt and Malta back to England. In 1839 Stoddart had been sent to Bokhara to negotiate a treaty against a background of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia. In 1841 Connolly tried to join Stoddart, who had apparently been under confinement for some time. Both officers were beheaded, probably in 1842. This was what Wolff discovered who in 1843 he made a second journey to Bokhara to search for Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart. He escaped Bokhara after he knew that the Colonel was executed. In 1845 he published this work in two volumes in New York. In 1821 he began "his extraordinary nomadic career as a missionary to the Jews of the Near East and central Asia. Between 1821 and 1826 he travelled as a missionary in Egypt, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Crimea." (ODNB) Bibliographical Reference: Blackmer, 1833 for first American edition 1845. #5669. Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION; vol. II, 2nd edn. Front. port., 'Right of Translation' slip, ad. slip, 8pp cata. vol. I. Orig. light brown cloth, rebacked with similar cloth, brown leather labels; inner hinges vol. I repaired, corners worn. Boards of vol. II have the Saunders, Otley logo in gilt.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. Volume I: viii, [3 errata], 538 pp., [8 adverts], frontispiece portrait / Volume II: xv, 463 pp., [1], [8 adverts], original cloth gilt, faded and rubbed at spine extremities, title gilt on spine, gilt motif on upper cover of volume 2, occasional foxing, front endpapers of volume 1 soiled and marked, second edition, 1860-1861. Joseph Wolff, a British missionary. He traveled between 1821 and 1826 to Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, and Aleppo. In 1828 he began another journey visiting Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Armenia, Khurassan, Bokhara and Kabul. He describes the countries he travelled into giving new information about the Moslems of Central Asia. Wolf continued his journey from Afghanistan into India, Egypt and Malta back to England. In 1839 Stoddart had been sent to Bokhara to negotiate a treaty against a background of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia. In 1841 Connolly tried to join Stoddart, who had apparently been under confinement for some time. Both officers were beheaded, probably in 1842. This was what Wolff had discovered when in 1843 he made a second journey to Bokhara to search for Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddard. He escaped Bokhara after he knew that the Colonel was executed. #29799.

First edition. 8vo. vi, 402 pp. Raised as a Jew, Wolff (1795-1862) became a Roman Catholic in 1812, eventually studying in Rome and entering the priesthood. Wolff's 1820s journey, a search for the Lost Tribes of Israel, took him to Anatolia, Armenia Afghanistan, Kashmir, Calcutta, Madra, Bombay, Egypt, and Malta; in the 1830s he visited Ethiopia, Jeddah, Yeman, and Bombay; his letters are rich in commentary on Islam. Contemporary marbled boards (rubbed), rebacked with tan calf, leather spine label. Corners bumped, scattered foxing, else very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). The third edition of Messianic Jewish missionary Joseph Wolff's account of his perilous journey to Central Asia in search of two missing British officers. The third edition of this work, which was first published the year prior.With an engraved portrait frontispiece.Wolff travelled through present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan, before arriving in the Emirate of Bokhara to discern the fate of missing British officers Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly.In this work, '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' (Blackmer). In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of rubbing to perimeters of front board. Light fading to areas of front board. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to title page and frontispiece, with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Fifth edition. 8vo. Original blind decorated plum cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine faded, extremities slightly worn, a few small stains to boards, otherwise good. xxv, [1]blank, 429pp. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, published for the author, 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.

[London]: Published, for the author, by John W. Parker, West Strand. 1845. Two volumes, 8vo. Late 20th-century fine half-morocco over marbled boards by the Abrams Bindery, Wellington, Somerset; pp. xix, 352; xvi, 335, 11, [3, publisher's catalogues, dated July, 1845]; 9 lithographs after drawings mostly by by Mirza Abdul Wahab; light offsetting from previous endpapers and frontispieces, minimally spotted or toned internally; a very attractive copy.Very rare first edition. Wolff's Narrative, very soon became a "best-seller" among a public hungry for information about British interests in Central Asia. Wolff, a German Jew who had converted to Catholicism travelled relentlessly as a missionary, mainly to the Jews in the Middle East, Egypt, Eritrea, and Central Asia. After having preached to Congress he returned from the US and he 'was ordained priest by the bishop of Dromore, in 1838, and in the same year he accepted the small living of Linthwaite in Yorkshire.Unable to remain still for long, 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 PS500 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 [sic!] his Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara . to ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, which reached a seventh edition in 1852. 'Containing the early life history of the Rev. Wolff and his travels through Afghanistan, Northern India, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Bokhara and Persia" (Yakushi).Lowndes, p. 2976; Yakushi W108.

First Edition. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 352; xvi, 335, [1], 11 (ads), [5] ads; 9 lithograph plates mostly after drawings by Abdul Wahab; original green blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt on spine; slight discoloration of the spine, the last plate in each volume is dampstained, 2 gatherings extended in volume II, one plate loose (but present); a good copy in the original binding. Conolly and Stoddart "were both of them cruelly slaughtered at Bokhara, after enduring agonies from confinement in prison of the most fearful character; masses of their flesh having been gnawn off their bones by vermin" (Lowndes). "Containing the early life history of the Rev. Wolff and his travels through Afghanistan, Northern India, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Bokhara and Persia" (Yakushi). Lowndes, p. 2976; Yakushi W206.

In the Years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. Third edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Original blind-embossed cloth, a little faded, with spine dull. Head and tail of spine very slightly frayed. A little tie-denting to fore-edges of boards. Uncut and unopened. xxvii,495pp. 16pp. ads. London, published for the author by John W. Parker cf. Yakushi, W108.