Magni Cornelio, "Quanto de piu curioso… Viaggi e dimore per la TURCHIA, includono l efame della metropoli di Constantinopoli, de luoghi aggiacenti e dell esercito Ottomano, Parma, 1679. First edition, small 8vo 17x10cm, 672p., fine clean and with large margins, later full leather slightly rubbed, overall very good. Magni (1638-1692), an Italian mariner, left for the Levant in 1671. He had been captured by pirates, sold as a slave, later became a renegade and captain of an Ottoman galley. He traveled extensively in the Balkans, Anatolia, Greece, the Archipelago and Cyprus. He took finally refuge to the French ambassador in Constantinople and escaped back to Italy in 1674. He had returned later in the Levant. The first part of his travels had been published in 1679 (this edition), in his native city in very small print run, as all Parmas editions. The second part of his travels was published separately, after 13 years in 1692. The work is in a form of letters written from the Levant. He provides extensive and detailed accounts for many places of the Ottoman Levant with unique information. This Parma printed first edition is extremely rare and was missing from Atabeys collection (Atabey 750,for a later edition printed in Venice),not in Blackmer.