Muhammad al Idrisi, P. A. Jaubert, “Geographie D’Edrisi traduite de l’arabe en Francais…”. First edition, Paris 1840 (second and last volume). Tall 4to, pp.viii,501. Contemporary binding, leather spine with cloth boards. Muhammad al Idrisi (1100-1165) was a famous medieval Arab geographer cartographer that travelled all around the known world in the 12th century. He visited Greece, Balkans and Anatolia in 1155-56, then parts of Byzantine empire. His travel account remained manuscript up to the 19th century when the famous orientalist P. A. Jaubert (after 6 years of efforts) managed to translate it. This second volume covers the travels in Europe, Greece, Balkans, Asia Minor, Black sea, Caucasus, Cyprus and Syria offering valuable information of Pelopponese, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, Thessalia, Macedonia, Constantinople, as well as many places of Pontos. A significant early medieval travel account for Greece and the Levant, in first edition. Extremely rare.