1953 Robiquet Nautical Map of the East Coast of the United States

This is Aimé Robiquet's rare 1853 first-edition separately-issued nautical map of the eastern seaboard of the United States, including the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

A Closer Look

Coverage embraces the eastern coastline of North America from Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Nova Scotia, south past Cape Cod, New York, the Chesapeake, the Outer Banks, and the Georgia Coast as far as St. Augustine, Florida. Insets detail New York Harbor, Delaware Bay (as far as Philadelphia), and Florida. The New York Inset follows the early work of Ferdinand Hassler and Thomas Gedney of the U.S. Coast Survey. The large Delaware Bay inset also follows Coast Survey efforts. In the Florida inset, Voluisa, Tampa, Cap Floride (Miami), Ft. Lauderdale, and Cape Canaveral are named. The inland lakes are also well-mapped. Throughout the chart, as a whole, there are countless depth soundings, and lighthouses are highlighted in yellow and red.

Publication History and Census

This chart was engraved by Louis Antoine and published in Paris in 1853 by Aimé Robiquet. This is the first edition, 1853. We are aware of subsequent updates in 1861 (likely in anticipation of the Civil War) and 1871. It is rare, as are all Robiquet charts, the American charts being even more so. We see no cataloged examples of any edition in OCLC and have seen only later editions on the market, and then just twice in the last 25 years.