Juan José de Eguiara y Eguren, Bibliotheca Mexicana (1755)

In 1735 the dean of Alicante told a young man not to sail for the Indies: where would he turn, among the Indians, in so vast a solitude of letters? Twenty years later a Mexican theologian answered him with a folio — a catalogue of everyone born in North America, or drawn into it, who had written anything in any language — printed at Mexico on a press set up in the author's own house. One volume appeared, letters A to C.