Martín, Esteban
Martín, Esteban
(ĕstā`bän märtēn`), fl. 1539, printer in Mexico. Martín is reputed to have preceded Juan PablosPablos, Juan, d. 1561?, printer in Spanish America. Pablos printed in Mexico City the first book known to have been printed in the Western Hemisphere. It was a religious manual, Breve y más compendiosa doctrina christiana en lengua mexicana y castellana
..... Click the link for more information. . There is evidence that he printed Escala espiritual para llegar al cielo, a translation of a work by St. John Climax, in 1535, and Catechismo mexicano in 1537.