The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, or New Atlas, was published in Istanbul in 1803 by the Ottoman Military Engineering School Press — the first atlas to be printed in the Muslim world.

The atlas, intended to provide military students and officials with modern geographic information, was produced as part of the “New Order” of Sultan Selim III. The atlas was part of an effort to incorporate Western military and technological advances into Ottoman society.

Consisting of a treatise on geography, a celestial chart and 24 maps of the world, from Turkey and the Mediterranean to the brand-new United States, the atlas was based on the works of English cartographer William Faden and his General Atlas.

Only 50 copies of the atlas were printed, many of which were destroyed in a fire in 1808.

Less than a dozen complete copies of the atlas survive today, making it one of the rarest printed atlases in the world.