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]
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About This Item
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)
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- Bibiliophilia Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SZEPEBKS007501I
- Title
- Pigsticking or Hoghunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen; and others. - Illustrated by the Author.
- Author
- Baden-Powell, Captain R.S.S.: [THE FOUNDER OF THE BOY SCOUTS MOVEMENT - FIRST BOOK ON WILD BOAR HUNTING IN INDIA]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harrison & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- PIGSTICKING - HOGHUNTING - WI - LD BOAR HUNTING - INDIA - BRITISH EMPIRE - ENGLISH BOOKS - 19TH CENTURY BOOKS - ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - BOY SCOUTS
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About Bibiliophilia Books
Formerly Helena Szepe Books of Chicago, we have close to 40 years experience as sellers of antiquarian, rare, and interesting books and ephemera. We have recently moved ourselves and our books to sunny Florida.Specialties: Art, Early Printed Books, Science, Scholarly Books, German Books, Hungarian Books.
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