The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks Thomas Bradford’s map of the

Thomas Bradford’s map of the District of Columbia is one of the first maps available to describe the area

government and one of the foremost scientific institutions in the country leading up to the Civil War

Jacques Barraband's Perroquets

He received only a basic public education

The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks Thomas Bradford’s map of theORBIS 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