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The Atlas was initially published in French, with "13 sold-out editions, despite its high price". Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a personal friend of the author (Conde de las Casas), was one to most frequently reference it. 

The wars of American Independence aroused an unusual interest in Las Casas, which motivated him to order a second edition. He hired an American politician, a pro-independence "American Spaniard" hidden under the pseudonym of Andrés de Arango, to translate, correct, and update the work. 

The Atlas contains the first essay on the historical and political interpretation of the American countries that were independent from Spain. The work presents an outline of the first map of the American continent showing ten countries: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia (called Upper Peru), Peru (called Lower Peru), Colombia, Central America, Haiti, and Mexico. In his introduction, the author classifies Brazil and the United States as "foreign countries", Alaska as "Russian America", and Greenland, Labrador, North Hudson Bay, Guyana, the Amazonian riverbanks, part of Paraguay, Patagonia and the Araucanian country as "little known". 

The edition was sent to bookshops in Mexico, Guatemala and Santiago de Chile, capitals where it was intended to be political propaganda in favour of emancipation. It also circulated in Madrid, Lisbon, London, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Marseilles, Perpignan and Toulouse.