Decent complete edition of this basic work by Joseph König. König was a German chemist and founder of German food chemistry and a professor of food chemistry at the Westphalia Wilhelms University in Münster.
This work contains very elaborate chemical descriptions and the results of tests concerning all kinds of food products and euphoriants. It is the fourth, improved new edition edited by A. Bömer and published by Julius Springer in Berlin (half fabric binding).
This edition consists of six volumes:
Volume 1: Erster Band - 1,535 pp. - Illustrations.
Volume 2: Zweiter Band - 932 pp.
Volume 3: Dritter Band - Teil I - 772 pp. - illustrations.
Volume 4: Dritter Band - Teil II - 972 pp. - illustrations.
Volume 5: Dritter Band - Teil III - 1,120 pp. - illustrations.
Volume 6: Nachtrag zu den Erster Band - 594 pp. - Tables.