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The Klencke Atlas is the largest engraved atlas

documentary digitized map leaf from the circa-1660 Klencke Atlas, depicting Germany; original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klencke_Atlas_Germany_map.jpg. Source: British Library material. Creator credited on file page as N.N./British Library. Public domain as marked on the file page; no attribution is required, though British Library credit is retained.

documentary portrait miniature of Charles II, the atlas’s recipient; original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_II_(1630%E2%80%931685),_King_of_England_MET_DP161831.jpg. Artist: Samuel Cooper; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 62.122.21. The Met released the digital image under CC0; credit is retained.

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documentary digitized map leaf from the circa-1660 Klencke Atlas, depicting Germany; original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klencke_Atlas_Germany_map.jpg. Source: British Library material. Creator credited on file page as N.N./British Library. Public domain as marked on the file page; no attribution is required, though British Library credit is retained.

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Created around 1660, the Klencke Atlas is named by Guinness World Records as the largest engraved atlas. Guinness gives its closed dimensions as 178 cm high, 105 cm wide and 11 cm thick; open, it is 231 cm wide. The British Library gives the open atlas dimensions as 176 × 231 cm. It is more accurate to describe it as a record-setting atlas than as the largest book in general. [1, 2]