Antonio de León Pinelo, Epítome de la Biblioteca Oriental i Occidental (1629)

The first systematic bibliography of the Americas, printed at Madrid in 1629 by a jurist raised in Lima and employed as relator of the Council of the Indies. Its catalogue is indexed by the language a book was written in, so Quichua stands as a column beside Greek, English and Catalan; and its section on the languages of the Indies lists, title by title, the grammars and dictionaries made for a dozen American tongues.