This charming miniature book with a world map facing the title page was issued by the same John Wallis who did the famous Map of the United States, 1783 — one of the first maps of the U.S. and the first to feature the U.S. flag.

Consisting entirely of double­-page engraved plates and hand­colored maps, this miniature pocket atlas was also published in an edition with text, not present here. The book’s engraved frontispiece and title page by Tobias Lobeck after G. Eichler are followed by maps that are dense with information.

This small atlas, with a vignette showing three children studying the globe, was very popular and went through many editions in England and the United States over the next 40 years.

The maps in this early French teaching atlas use numbers and letters in place of names for the purpose of questioning students.

Small pocket atlas, showing the results of the Treaty of 1763. The double-­page map of Canada includes New England and the Great Lakes.

Gerardus Mercator can confidently be called the greatest cartographer of the sixteenth century. Shortly after publication of his large folio atlases, the need was felt for a smaller sized atlas, one that would be handier and above all, cheaper, so that a larger public might have access to the use of maps. To fulfill this need, the Atlas minor was published in 1607.

First published in 1763, this small school atlas remained popular for teaching geography for many years. This plate shows the various geographical systems of Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Tycho Brahe, as well as an armillary sphere, a type of three­-dimensional celestial globe that can be used to calculate various astronomical phenomena.

This is the Swedish edition of a popular 19th-­century pocket and school atlas by Adolf Stieler. The title page and preface are in Swedish; the maps are in German.

This is a reissue of the 1830 world atlas by Rest Fenner. For a small atlas it is very well done, including both ancient maps and modern maps showing the latest geographical discoveries.