[13] Jackson, Bibliographies géographiques, no. 612; Serapeum (1845), p. 223; Trübner, Bibliographical Guide, p. xxv.
[14] Sparks, Catalogue, no. 1,635; Jackson’s Bibliographies géographiques, no. 613; Trübner, p. xxv.
[15] History of Mexico, iii. 512, where is an account of Alcedo’s historical labors.
[16] Sparks, Catalogue, no. 1,635 a, and p. 230.
[17] Sabin, Bibliography of Bibliographies, p. xxiv; H. H. Bancroft, Central America, ii. 700, 760.
[18] Quincy’s Harvard University, ii. 413, 596. It is noteworthy, in view of so rich an accession coming from Germany, that Grahame, the historian of our colonial period, says that in 1825 he found the University Library at Göttingen richer in books for his purpose than all the libraries of Britain joined together.
[19] This collection is also embraced in the Catalogue of the College Library already referred to. Mr. Warden began the collection of another library, which he used while writing the American part (10 vols.) of the Art de vérifier des Dates, Paris, 1826-1844, and which (1,118 works) was afterward sold to the State Library at Albany for $4,000. Dr. Henry A. Homes, the librarian at Albany, informs me that when arranged it made twenty-one hundred and twenty-three volumes. Warden’s Bibliotheca Americana, Paris, 1831, reprinted at Paris in 1840, is a catalogue of this collection. Mr. Warden died in 1845, aged 67. Cf. Ludewig in the Serapeum, 1845, p. 209; Muller, Books on America (1872), no. 1734; Allibone, iii. 2,579; S. G. Goodrich, Recollections, ii. 243; Jackson’s Bibl. Géog., nos. 617, 618; Trübner, Bibliographical Guide, p. xiv. There was a final sale of Mr. Warden’s books by Horatio Hill, in New York, in 1846.
[20] This portrait of one of the earliest contributors to the bibliography of American history follows an engraving in the Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, May, 1800, p. 395. Ebeling was born Nov. 20, 1741, and died June 30, 1817, and his own contributions to American History were—
(a) Amerikanische Bibliothek (Zwei Stücke), Leipzig, 1777.
(b) Erdbescreibung und Geschichte von America, Hamburg, 1795-1816, in seven vols.; the author’s interleaved copy, with manuscript notes, is in Harvard College Library.