Salomone, Luigi (sold)
Luigi Salomone (fl. c. 1870 - 1967) was an Italian lithographer active from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Salomone (the firm) was founded in 1870 by Salomone and Peitro Bruno. In 1891, Salomone took over Bruno's shares, becoming sole owner of the company. In 1920 they built a large arts and publishing complex on Via Ostiense - this building, one of the largest printing factories in Europe, was destroyed by bombs in World War II. They were among the first to introduce chromolithographic processes to Italy. They remained active well into the 1960s, long after Salomone's death, as Stabilimento Arti Grafiche Luigi Salomone
Intellectual property - redefined.
Gentium Foederationis de Tuenda Industriali Proprietate Nova Descriptio. / [A New Description of the Federation of Nations for Protecting Industrial Property].
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A most unusual 1958 map of the world issued for presentation to attendees of the 1958 Lisbon Industrial Property Symposium - a meeting intended to review and set global trademark and patent protections. The map itself covers the entire world on a much-distorted Mercator Projection - such that only Europe is vaguely proportional. The cartographer has added decorative elements borrowed from the 16th century cartography of Ortelius (border, ships, title cartouche) and the 17th century work of the Blaeu firm (compass rose) - giving the whole an Old World aesthetic, despite modern cartography. (We find it ironic that for a map celebrating intellectual property protections, so much is copied from older maps.) The map, curiously, uses loose color coding to emphasize colonial empires - although the coding is by no means comprehensive. The British sphere of influence is red, the French green, and unaffiliated countries, yellow. (more details)