* [https://archive.org/details/diegeschichtlich00farbuoft Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Chemie] (The historical development of chemistry), Berlin: Springer 1921
* as translator and editor with Moritz Färber: Der skeptische Chemiker von Robert Boyle, Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften; No. 229, 1928 (See Robert Boyles The Sceptical Chymist'.)
* Evolution of Chemistry: A History of Its Ideas, Methods, and Materials, New York: Ronald Press, 1952, 2nd Edition, 1969
* Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry, 1953, [https://archive.org/details/nobelprizewinner00farb/page/n5 revised edition, 1962]
* as editor: Great Chemists, Interscience 1961
* Milestones of Modern Chemistry: Original Reports of the Discoveries, 1966