Nicely illustrated antique copy of "A Text-Book of Vegetable and Animal Physiology" by Henry Goadby. 1859; D. Appleton and Company; New York. "Designed for the Use of Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges in the United States." Richly illustrated - "embellished with upwards of 450 illustrations" in both color and black & white. The book is a collection of 96 Lessons grouped into two parts:  Vegetable Tissues, and Animal Tissues. The front end paper bears the bookplate of John S. Hougham and the facing page is signed by him, Franklin College, 1839. See photos. Some stains to edge.

Here are a few examples of the Lessons:  Vascular Tissue; Porous and Dotted Ducts; Hairs; Of the Stems of Trees; The Original Compounds of the Animal Body; Of Cells, Membranes and Fibres; The Nails; Nutrition in Man; The Structure of the Teeth; Nutrition in Birds; The Salivary Glands; The Properties of the Gastric Juice and Mucus; Muscular Fibre; Nervous System in Crustacea; The Eye in Insects; Organs of Vision in the Higher Animals; The Eyes in Reptiles, Birds and Mammalia...and much more.