Adulphe Delegorgue’s Travels in Southern Africa, 2 Vols (1990)

Adulphe Delegorgue's Travels in Southern Africa (originally Voyage dans l'Afrique Australe) is a two-volume 19th-century travelogue documenting the French naturalist's explorations, big-game hunting, and scientific specimen collecting in Natal, Zululand, and the Transvaal between 1838 and 1844. He documented Zulu, Boer, and British interactions, including the battle for Port Natal.

Officially, Adulphe Delegorgue was a naturalist exploring for specimens; unofficially, he was a passionate big-game hunter and ivory trader.
Delegorgue arrived in Cape Town in 1838 and traveled to Natal in 1839 where he witnessed the final assault on Zulu King Dingane in 1840. He visited Mpande's kraal in 1841, and traveled to the Limpopo River, reaching the Tropic of Capricorn in 1843.
Originally published in two volumes in Paris in 1847.
English translations published by the Killie Campbell Africana Library.

Bound in leather by Alex Faria.
Marbled boards.
Originally published as a soft cover binding.
Each vol 165mm x 245mm x 33mm

R4,000