The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks Featuring images from The Grammer

Featuring images from The Grammer of Ornament by Owen Jones and originally printed in 1858

this colorful German map shows the mountain ranges and river systems of North America

He received only a basic public education

this phone case features original art that was made for post cards printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Jacques Barraband's Perroquets

The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks Featuring images from The GrammerORBIS TERRAE COMPENDIOSA DESCRIPTIO quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, dated 1587. An elaborate strapwork border surrounds this beautiful double hemisphere map, and an armillary sphere and 32 point compass rose are tucked between the hemispheres. Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569. The North Pole is depicted as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate and there is