[ANTILLES] VERHOOST Edgard (1850-1912). Engineer and writer. - Lot 2

[ANTILLES] VERHOOST Edgard (1850-1912). Engineer and writer. Interesting manuscript entitled "Voyage aux Antilles. Lettres intimes" (s.l.n.d. [Brussels, c. 1900]). 1715 pp. 14 half pages and one 1/3 page, in three in-8 volumes. 7 maps, two of them handwritten (3 canvas maps), and 20 original photographs, 15 of them captioned; brown percaline, brown basane title-pieces (title-piece worn), gilt author at bottom of spine, gilt title on upper board, red edges (period binding). Probably unpublished manuscript in which Belgian engineer Edgard Verhoost presents his travel impressions through correspondence with his wife during the years 1888-1889. These letters are born of "the need to give form to our impressions, to preserve the memory of them [ ] in the most perfect independence of any talent, style or literary art! These volumes are rich in detail and anecdote, and he visited Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Antigua, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Cuba. This dense, evenly written manuscript is illustrated with 7 large, colorful, tabbed maps that punctuate the narrative. 20 black & white photographs of Havana, St. Thomas (one of the "triumphal entry of the Prince of Denmark into the island of St. Thomas"), Port of Spain, etc.