Magni: “Quanto di piu curioso e vago ha pottuto raccore Cornelio Magni nel primo bienno da esso consumato in viaggi e dimore per la Turchia… includono l efame della metropolis di Constantinopoli, de luoghi aggiacenti e dell esercito Ottomano...” Venetia 1682 Second enlarged edition, small 8vo 14,5x8cm, contemporary original hard paper covers slightly rubbed but almost intact, 432p.,and one folding plate, text fine and clean, overall very good. Magni (1638-1692), an Italian mariner, left for the Levant in 1671. He had been captured by pirates, sold into slavery, later became a renegade and captain of an Ottoman galley. He traveled extensively in the Balkans, Anatolia, Greece, the Archipelago and Cyprus. He finally took refuge to the French ambassador in Constantinople and escaped in 1674. The folding plate with a fine view of Constantinople has been drawn by the author from the premises of the French embassy in Constantinople. He had later returned in the Levant. The first part of his travels had been published first in Parma in 1679 (Karamitsos auction 641,lot 8007). The second part of his travels had been published separately, after 13 years in 1692, but the first part had been enlarged and issued in Venice including the fine view of Constantinople, not present in the original edition. 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. Atabey 750,(this edition),not in Blackmer.