Pigsticking or Hoghunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen; and others. - Illustrated by the Author. by Baden-Powell, Captain R.S.S.: [THE FOUNDER OF THE BOY SCOUTS MOVEMENT - FIRST BOOK ON WILD BOAR HUNTING IN INDIA] - 1889

London: Harrison & Sons, 1889. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - xi,(5),211,(1) pp., plus plates. - Contemporary dark brown 3/4- leather, title on leather label on spine, green boards, marbled endpapers. - Small amount of foxing on some pages, else fine - back of plates slightly browned, else fine. - With 25 full-page illustrations by Baden- Powell on plates. - Considered to be the first book dedicated to wild boar hunting in India, by the founder of the Boy Scouts Movement. - The first sentence of the Preface reads: "Pigsticking, a sport second to none and invaluable to our prestige and supremacy in India, deserves, what it has not had for years, a book to itself." - An excellent copy. Very Rare 1 Copy at the British Library (11/18)