Image: Civitas Londinium or The Agas Map of London

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Description: The earliest proper map (as opposed to panorama) of London known. Attributed to Ralph Agas, and probably surveyed between 1570 and 1605. The original was 6 foot 0.5 inches long by 2 feet 4.5 inches wide. This much reduced image is a scan of a copy of a lithograph of a copy, was itself badly repaired with sellotape and has had to be "restored"; so is hardly a truly faithful representation of the original, but few good copies exist and no other detailed public domain images are known.
Title: Civitas Londinium or The Agas Map of London
Credit: Maps of Old London, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Scanned & corrected Mike Calder.
Author: Mike Calder, image of Civitas Londinium, Agas' Map of London, c. 1570-1605
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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