Those vulgar tubes : external sanitary accommodations aboard European ships of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries / by Joe J. Simmons III
1997, Facsimile Edition. College Station London : Texas A&M University Press ; Chatham Pub. Fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #473161
ISBN: 0890967881
Physical description; x, 97 p., ill. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-89) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Early Evidence of Human Waste Removal from Watercraft -- Conditions aboard Later Ships -- Fifteenth Century: Pre-Fifteenth-Century Bow and Stern Evolution, Bow, Stern -- Sixteenth Century: Bow, Stern -- Seventeenth Century: Bow, Amidships, Stern -- Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries: Bow, Amidships, Stern -- Conclusion: Bow, Amidships, Stern. Subjects; Ships Sanitation History. Naval Architecture. Military & Naval Science. Law, Politics & Government.
Price: €12.95