TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor).
A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp.
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Enlarged second edition of an illustrated work on British land and fresh water shells by the British naturalist William Turton (1762-1835) and extensively enlarged and corrected by the British zoologist John Edward Gray (1800-1875). Described and depicted are the shells of land and fresh-water snails and other fresh-water molluscs, arranged according to their family. The descriptions also included references to some important sources and authors.
Binding rubbed and spine slightly damaged at the head. Overall in very good condition. Junk, Thes. libr. conchyliorum 332.
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