📚 Metallurgy

Ore into object: smelting, casting, heat treatment, and the craft that dated every age since stone.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject metallurgy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Metals handbook	American Society for Metals	1948	29
	Furnishing the Home of Good Taste	Lucy Abbot Throop	1912	17
	De re metallica	Georg Agricola	1541	14
	Modern American methods of copper smelting	Edward Dyer Peters	1887	13
	The metallurgy of silver	Manuel Eissler	1889	13
	The surface treatment and finishing of aluminium and its alloys	S. Wernick	1956	13
	Modern physical metallurgy	R. E. Smallman	1962	13
	Plastics materials	J. A. Brydson	1966	13
	Metallurgical thermochemistry	O. Kubaschewski	1951	12
	Modern copper smelting	Edward Dyer Peters	1895	11
	The metallurgy of gold	Manuel Eissler	1888	10
	Metals in the service of man	Arthur Street	1964	10
	Welding metallurgy	Sindo Kou	1987	10
	Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials	David R. Gaskell	2003	10
	De la pirotechnia	Vannoccio Biringucci	1540	9
	Elements of materials science and engineering, 6th edition	Lawrence H. Van Vlack	1975	9
	Metallurgy for engineers	Ernest Clarence Rollason	1939	8
	Non-metallic inclusions in steel	Roland Kiessling	1964	8
	BCIRA broadsheets	British Cast Iron Research Association.	1969	8
	Metallurgy fundamentals	Daniel A. Brandt	1985	8
	Iron and steel	William F. Hosford	2012	8
	Physikalische Metallkunde	P. Haasen	1974	7
	General metallurgy	Heinrich Oscar Hofman	1913	6
	Metallurgy	Carl Gunnard Johnson	1938	6
	The making, shaping and treating of steel	United States Steel Corporation.	1951	6
	Engineering metallurgy	Raymond Aurelius Higgins	1957	6
	Engineering metallurgy	Raymond A. Higgins	1957	6
	Principles of extractive metallurgy	Terkel Rosenqvist	1969	6
	Principles of Extractive Metallurgy	Fathi Habashi	1969	6
	Practical metallurgy and materials of industry	Neely, John	1979	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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