Editing Atlas (section)

==Selected atlases==
{{Main|List of atlases}}

Some cartographically or commercially important atlases are:

'''17th century and earlier''':
*{{lang|la|[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]}} 1570 atlas by [[Abraham Ortelius]]
*{{lang|la|[[Gerardus_Mercator#atlas1595|Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura]]}} (Mercator, Duisburg, in present-day Germany, 1595)
*{{lang|la|[[Atlas Novus]]}} (Joan Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658)
*{{lang|la|[[Atlas Maior]]}} (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)
*{{Lang|fr|Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde}} (France, 1658–1676)
*{{lang|it|[[Dell'Arcano del Mare]]}} ([[Robert Dudley (explorer)|Robert Dudley]], England/Italy, 1645–1661)
*[[Piri Reis map]] ([[Piri Reis]], Ottoman Empire, 1570–1612)
*{{Lang|la|[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]}} (Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570–1612)
*''[[Klencke Atlas]]'' (1660; one of the world's largest books)
* ''[[Britannia (atlas)#Ogilby's Britannia|Britannia]]'' (1675), [[John Ogilby]] (1600–1676), first to be printed at a specific scale (1:63,360 or one inch to one mile

'''18th century'''
*{{Lang|fr|Atlas Nouveau}} (Amsterdam, 1742)
*{{lang|la|[[Britannia Depicta]]}} (London, 1720)
*''[[John Cary|Cary's New and Correct English Atlas]]'' (London, 1787)

'''19th century''':
*{{Lang|de|[[Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas]]}} (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as ''[[Times Atlas of the World]]'', 1895)
*''[[Rand McNally|Rand McNally Atlas]]'' (United States, 1881–present)
*{{Lang|de|[[Stielers Handatlas]]}} (Germany, 1817–1944)
*''[[Times Atlas of the World]]'' (United Kingdom, 1895–present)

'''20th century''':
*{{lang|it|[[Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano]]}} (Italy, 1927–1978)
*''[[Atlas Linguisticus]]'' (Austria, 1934)
*{{Lang|ru-latn|[[Atlas Mira]]}} (Soviet Union/Russia, 1937–present)
*''[[Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas]]'' (United Kingdom, 1938–present)
*{{Lang|es|[[Gran Atlas Aguilar]]}} (Spain, 1969/1970)
*''[[The Historical Atlas of China]]'' (China)
*''[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic Atlas]]'' of the World (United States, 1963–present)
*''[[Pergamon World Atlas]]'' (1962/1968)

'''21st century''':
*''[[North American Environmental Atlas]]''