List of atlases explained

This is a list of notable atlases, each a collection of maps, some including statistical data for the regions represented:

Early modern

15th century

• Douce Atlas (nautical atlas)

16th century

• Piri Reis Map (Ottoman Empire, 1513)
• Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612)
• Mercator's Atlas (1578)

17th century

• Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA)
• Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661)
• Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676)
• Klencke Atlas (1660; world's largest book)
• Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)
• Atlante Veneto (Coronelli, Venice, 1691)

18th century

• Britannia Depicta (London, 1720)
• Atlas Nouveau (Amsterdam, 1742)
• Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787)

Modern

19th century

• Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895)
• Atlas do Visconde de Santarem (Paris, 1841, 1842-1844, and 1849)
• Bosatlas (Netherlands 1877–present)
• Cedid Atlas (Istanbul, 1803)o
• Rand McNally Atlas (United States, 1881–present)
• Stielers Handatlas (Germany, 1817–1944)

20th century

• Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927–1978)
• Atlas Mira (Russia, 1937–present)
• Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas (United Kingdom, 1938–present)
• Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970)
• Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980)
• The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982)
• National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present)
• Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968)
• Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present)
• Dorling Kindersley Atlas of the World 1994–present

Digital atlases

See also: Geographic information system, List of online map services, Web mapping and Comparison of web map services.

• TerraServer-USA/MSR Maps (1998)
• NASA World Wind (2003)
• Google Maps (2005)
• WikiMapia (2006)
• North American Environmental Atlas (2005)
• Bing Maps (2010)

See also

• History of cartography
• History of geography
• List of historical maps
• Cartography
• Manifold
• Bird atlas
• Star atlas

External links

• Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries
• Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection
• Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.