Museum Leskeanum
Subtitle: regnum animale quod ordine systematico
By: disposuit atque descripsit D.L. Gustavus Karsten, Societ. Nat. Curios. Halens. sodalis
Contributors: Leske, Nathanael Gottfried, 1751-1786; Reiche, L., former owner; Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner
Publisher: Sumptibus haeredum I.G. Mülleri
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Lipsiae
Language: lat
Subjects: Zoology; Animals; Collectors and collecting; Classification
Other titles: Mvsevm Leskeanvm; Regnum animale
Notes: Vol. I is in Latin, and v. II. in German. Vol. II, Regnum minerale, is in 2 pt., each of which has two titlepages, one Latin and one German, with a separate pagination and register.

"Vol. I cum IX iconibus pictis."

Vol. I: Signatures: *-2*3*a-bc(-c8) A-HIK-UX. Pagination: [44], XLIV, [2], 320 p., [9] leaves of plates (8 folded).

Vita Nathanaelis Godofredi Leskii: p. [3]-[30].

Plates are hand-colored.

Includes bibliographical references and Scriptorum a Leskio editorum tituli: p. [30]-[32].

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 2, p. 960

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two incomplete copies, both of v. I only.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015715931) blind-stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 199722.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine, red edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015715972) plates are trimmed and not folded.

SCNHRB c. 2 has booklabel: L. Reiche no. 191.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [ms. acc. no.] 246310. Inscribed in ink on verso of t.p.: Chas. W. Richmond.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in tree calf, gilt rules at borders, gilt-decorated flat spine, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges; housed in an archival cardboard portfolio.