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  • James Parkinson, No. 1 Hoxton Square
  • An essay on the shaking palsy / by James Parkinson.
  • The way to health : extracted from The villager's friend and physician / by James Parkinson.
  • Organic remains of a former world. An examination of the mineralized remains of the vegetables and animals of the antediluvian world; generally termed extraneous fossils / [James Parkinson].
  • Organic remains of a former world. An examination of the mineralized remains of the vegetables and animals of the antediluvian world; generally termed extraneous fossils / [James Parkinson].
  • A complete herbal ... / by James Newton, containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, etc. Many of which are not to be found in the herbals of either Gerard, Johnson or Parkinson.
  • Hints for the improvement of trusses; intended to render their use less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an understrap. With the description of a truss of easy construction and slight expence [sic], for the use of labouring poor / [James Parkinson].
  • The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary. With cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c ... / [James Parkinson].
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A variety of madrepores and fossils. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • A variety of fossilised madrepores and other organic remains. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Ten different fossilised remains of plants in schistose stones. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • A variety of madrepores. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • A variety of madrepores. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Eleven different fossilised remains of plants in schistose stones. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • The antlers of an Irish fossil elk, and fossil teeth and tusks. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • Fossilised organic remains on stones. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving, 1833.
  • A variety of madrepores. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • A variety of madrepores. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Seven different fossilised remains of plants in schistose stones. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • The skeleton of a megatherium and teeth of a fossil bear. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Fossil teeth of mammals: hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, Palaeotherium medium, Anoplotherium, Megalonyx (tooth and claw). Coloured etching by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • A variety of madrepores and fossils. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • A variety of madrepores and fossils. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth.
  • Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth after M. Sheffield.
  • Geology: fossil remains of a coral (Alcyonium). Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth after M. Sheffield.
  • Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London: the interior of the rotunda, F. Accum lecturing. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1809, after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin.