The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas; published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672; in Latin (11 volumes); French (12 volumes); Dutch (9 volumes); German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes); containing 594 maps and around 3000 pages of text.

It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier; much smaller versions; titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; sive; Atlas Novus; were published from 1634 onwards. Pictures From History