Juan Pio Perez, Diccionario de la lengua maya (Merida de Yucatan, 1866-1877)

The first large printed dictionary of a Maya language, set in Merida from types ordered in New York because the alphabet Spanish friars devised for Maya needed sorts no Yucatecan press held. Its prologue records how three centuries of missionary lexicography reached the 1830s - a 1690 vocabulary found in a parish archive, an anonymous dictionary from a Franciscan library with its first pages gone, one meagre printed book - and why little else survived.