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La Vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ par Nicolas Notovitch Cartes et illustrations. Sixième édition

8vo. pp. xii, 361, [5], maps and plates. Spine broken, text intact but loose in original printed wrappers. Original edition, one of eight ‘editions’ from a single setting of type, all issued by Ollendorff in 1894. The French text is the first appearance of what Beskow calls ‘the best-known Gospel forgery of modern times’ (Strange Tales about Jesus (1983), pp. 57-65, 121-22 (notes)). In this work, the Jewish Crimean war-journalist and historian (claiming Russian aristocratic descent) Nicolas Notovitch (1858?-1916) attempted to fill in Jesus’s ‘missing years’ by claiming that at age thirteen Christ visited India, where he was known as ‘the Issa.’ The ‘vie inconnue’ is claimed by Notovitch to be based on a Tibetan manuscript. La Vie inconnue gained world-wide circulation and credit for several years but was demolished early on by Friedrich Max Müller (Last Essays: Second Series, Essays on the Science of Religion. London, 1901, Bib# 998932/Fr# 1489). In the 1894 volume – its one and only exposition, although some back-stepping came later – his ‘Preface’ and introductory ‘Voyage au Thibet’ (pp. 1-151) recount his discovery, in a monastic library at Leh, in Ladakh, during a tour of north

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