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An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or a region of Earth.
Frontispiece of the 1595 atlas of Mercator
World map Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the Orb of the World) by Abraham Ortelius, 1570
Title page of Speculum Orbis Terrae, by Cornelis de Jode. Cornelis was the son of Gerard de Jode. When his father died in 1591, Cornelis de Jode took over the work on his father's uncompleted atlas project (Speculum Orbis Terrarum, originally published in 1578), which he eventually published in 1593.
Blaeu's world map, originally prepared by Joan Blaeu for his Atlas Maior, published in the first book of the Atlas Van Loon (1664).
Imperii Orientalis et Circumjacentium Regionum by Guillaume Delisle (1742)
Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographic features and political boundaries, many atlases often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics. They also have information about the map and places in it.