The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks He received only a basic

He received only a basic public education

Jacques Barraband's Perroquets

and it helped to establish Hondius's reputation as a leading cartographer

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

Colors on the product might appear less bright than on the mockup

The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks He received only a basicORBIS 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