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The atlas map has defined the genre of antiquarian maps over the last century, for both the collector and the student of historic cartography. The atlas evolved as a commercial response to an opportunity provided by the educated and wealthy being hungry for the latest information on new discoveries in a previously unknown world, and of changes in the world they knew.
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Clancy, R., Manning, J., Brolsma, H. (2014). Atlas Maps. In: Mapping Antarctica. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4321-2_10
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