Is the past a soap bubble that has already burst?  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

You've heard that fairies are from the Otherworld, but it's quite literally another world.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

Mother Earth beseeches Father Time to spare her another year, from The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909.

From The Bab Ballads, written and illustrated by William Schwenck Gilbert, 1898.

From The Bab Ballads, written and illustrated by William Schwenck Gilbert, 1898.

"See what a little place you occupy in the world," from Great Events of the World, edited by Rebecca Warren Brown, 1888.

"The World's Umbrella" (obviously), from St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

You've heard that money makes the world go around, but it's actually bunny.  From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs, 1917.

Your instinct was correct -- our globe is all triangles.  From Monteith's Physical and Political Geography, 1875.

From The Up-to-Date Primer by John Wilson Bengough, 1896.

"Almost every world map you've looked at has been wrong," some say, but not this one from Chambers's Alternative Geography Readers, 1898.

From Goddelycke Wenschen, 1629.

From The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon, 1849.

Which came first, the world of typewriter art or the, um, art of the typewriter world?  Our illustration of the typewriter world appears as an ad in Rod and Gun, 1891.

"I dreamed a night or two ago."  (The awkward cropping at the top of the image is courtesy of the British Library.)  From Vagrant Verses by George Staunton Brodie and illustrated by Wallis Mackay, 1876.