ABOUT Edmond, “La Grece Contemporaine”, Paris, Hachette 1854. FIRST EDITION. 12o, pp.486, [2]. Cloth-bound including the original green paper covers. Wear along the paper covers, light spotting inside. Edmond About was a French journalist, who traveled widely in Greece in the middle of 19th century, visiting and describing most of the geographical areas of independent Greece. This is the First edition of his influential work that met immediate success and had been republished several times until the end of the 19th century.