EditorialBasilisk, Basilisk (Basiliscus), Basilisk. Representation of a lizard without front legs. Top left the name in Latin. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles, amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with water...
EditorialCommon basilisk, Basiliscus basiliscus (Lacerta basiliscus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wilson after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1801.