The ''Atlas Universal Aguilar'' was the first comprehensive world atlas of Spanish origin appeared in the 1950s. Published by
Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones in
Madrid
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in 1954 with 116 pages of maps preceded by an atlas of Spain. Five further editions were published until 1968, then this notable work was excelled by the three volume, large-sized ''Gran Atlas Aguilar'' by the same company (1969/1970, 406 pages of geographic and thematic maps), one of the most elaborate works of its kind published after
World War II
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. A concise edition was issued as ''
Atlas Mundial Gráfico Aguilar'' (1976), also published in 1982 by
The Kimberley Press,
Miami
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,
Florida
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as
Webster's
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''New World Atlas''.
Atlases
1954 non-fiction books
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