"MOST FAMOUS 18TH CENTURY AMERICAN BOOK"--HOWES MATHER, COTTON. Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England. 2-page map. [32], 38, [2], 75, [2], 238, [2], 125-222, 100, [2], 88, [blank leaf], 118 pages. Folio, contemporary paneled calf, moderate wear, rebacked and recornered; minor dampstaining and foxing, moderate wear to early leaves, early manuscript notes in margins, lacking top corners of last 5 leaves (filled with missing text added in manuscript); with one of the two publisher's ad leaves as described by Church, bound after leaf A4 as "A6"; early Liverpool library bookplate on front pastedown. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702