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Klencke Atlas (1660) is the world's largest dimensioned book.  It is 1.75 metres tall by 1.9 metres wide when open, and so heavy the British Library reportedly had six people to carry it.  It is a world atlas, made up of 37 maps on 39 sheets.
It was presented by Dutch merchant Johannes Klencke to King Charles II of England in 1660 to mark the occasion of his restoration to the throne.
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