Orbis Publishing Ltd. was a United Kingdom-based publisher of books and partworks. The company was founded in 1970 and changed its name to De Agostini UK Ltd. in 1999, after being acquired by the Italian De Agostini group.
Partworks published by Orbis included:
The Home Computer Course
The Home Computer Advanced Course
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft
War in Peace
War Machine
The Elite: Against All Odds
The Blues Collection
The Unexplained
The British Empire
Play it Today
All About Science
The Movie: The Illustrated History of the Cinema, published December 1979 to January 1983 in 158 chapters
World of Automobiles
On Four Wheels in 165 parts
On Two Wheels in 121 parts
The Encyclopedia of Super Cars
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wildlife in 62 parts
Warplane in 120 parts
The History of Rock
World War II
" The Classic Collection"
The Orbis Publishing Company [1] formed in 1994 is unrelated.
