Ildefonso Joseph Flores's Arte de la lengua cakchiquel (Guatemala, 1753)

The first grammar of a Mayan language of Guatemala to reach a printing press, made in Guatemala City in 1753 by a Franciscan parish priest. Its title promises not one language but a parallel of three — Kiche, Cakchiquel and Çutuhil — and its own approbations print the complaint that answers the obvious question: two centuries of friars had written grammars of these languages and not one of them had ever been printed.