Anderson Rufus, "Observations upon the Peloponnesus and Greek islands made in 1829", Boston, 1830. First and only edition. 8,21x13cm. Publishers blue cloth faded. Complete in pp334 including the FAMOUS folding wash-coloured MAP (46x37cm) of GREECE, THE VERY FIRST WITH BORDERS and THE ONLY ONE WITH THE BORDERLINE SPERHIOS-ACHELOOS (finally never applied). Text clean and fine, map (printed in rice paper) with short tear at edge and light misfold, overall a very good large uncut copy. The American minister Anderson (1796-1880), worked at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He travelled in Greece during 1828-29. He described, in very high details, almost every corner of the Peloponnesus at the last year of the Greek revolution & during the withdrawal of the Egyptian army. He after visited Aegina, Syros and several Ionian islands. In the second part of this work, he presents the government, the educational system, the population, the Greek Church and the local missionaries. Anderson returned in US in early 1830 and started to prepare the publication. In the meanwhile, Greece has been recognized for the first time as an independent state (London Protocol, 3rd of February 1830) with the north borderline Sperhios-Acheloos rivers & with Euboea included. Based on these facts, Anderson prepared in early summer 1830 a map of Greece included in the publication. One month after, in autumn, the borderline has changed. This is a fine and rare account with a unique map. Blackmer 32, Not in Atabey. Very rare.