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[COLOR-PLATE BOOKS]. [NATURAL HISTORY]. TURTON, William (1762-1835). Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum. The Shells of The British Islands Systematically arranged. London: M. A. Nattali, [1822]. 4to. Illustrated with 20 full-page hand-colored plates of the second order of Conchylia, the Dithyra / Bivalves. xlvii, [1]-279, [1, errata] pp. Approximately 9 ½ x 7 ½”. Bound in near contemporary green cloth, printed paper label on spine (gilt library markings on spine, spine sunned and edgeworn, some rubbing to boards, wear to corners, publisher’s ads affixed to fp along with the bookplate of the Worcestershire Natural History Society, and with their manuscript inscription on the ffep, and the embossed stamp of the Worcestershire Public Library on each of the hand-colored plates, some foxing in text). Very good. FIRST EDITION. Text in English and Latin. Reissued as Bivalve Shells of the British Islands (London, 1830.) Rare.