[MARITIME]. Letters from ship Alice Thorndike. 80 pages of letters signed ("Wm K. Thorndike") written between 1860 and 1864 and accounting papers bound together. 4o, 4 photographs bound-in (chipped, scratched, yellowing). Modern leather, gilt, t.e.g. [With:] 5 checks drawn from Norombega Bank signed ("Wm. H Strickland"). -- BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, 1802. 8o, folding map (torn vertically and lacking portion ¼ inch west of 30o), 7 plates (one torn in half and similarly lacking portion). Contemporary calf (chips and vertical cracks in spine, hinges and joints cracked). -- Dana, R. H. Two Years before the Mast. London, 1851. Original cloth. (3)