IBN JUBAIR Lot n° 40

Riḥlat al-kātib al-adīb al-bāri' al-labīb Abī al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jubayr al-kinānī al-andalusī First edition in Arabic of Ibn Jobair's account, printed from the copy of Brill Editions in Leiden, 1326h (=1908), ed. al-Hajj Muhmmad Amin Derbel, imprimerie al-Saada, Cairo. In-12, embossed binding, gilt title on spine, 326 pages + 30 pages preamble. First edition, published from the Leiden edition, of this account of the pilgrimage to Mecca in the Arab world. The publisher, Al-Haj Muhammad Amin Derbel of Tunisian origin, based in Cairo, endeavored to publish unpublished manuscripts in the Arab world at the turn of the 20th century. Al-Haj Muhammad Amin Derbel, a Tunisian-born publisher based in Cairo, endeavoured to publish unpublished manuscripts in the Arab world at the turn of the 20th century.