Parkinson, James; The Chemical Pocket-Book; or Memoranda Chemica . . . . embellished with Copperplates. First American edition, Philadelphia, 1802. Octavo, pp. xii, 215, engraved frontispiece of Guyton laboratory and folded plate of Woodhouse laboratory.

The work is complete and in a contemporary tree calf with red/gold spine title. The binding is tight with light scuffing to boards. Book plate on paste down of Barnes Woodhouse, light foxing to text, moderate to end sheets. In very good condition.
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While Parkinson is best known for his "Organic Remains"; he was also an accomplished chemist and wrote the above small text on chemistry as a reference work to be used in the laboratory. The work is of particular interest to the historian of mineralogy and geology for its chapters on the identification of minerals and their chemical composition and the composition of the earth and its origins.