The Diamond Sutra is one of the most popular and highly regarded of the Buddhist scriptures. The overall size of the blocks is roughly 5 - 7 / 8 by 8 - 1 / 2 inches and the size of the surrounding page frames is only slightly smaller. There are 38 blocks. Most are carved on both sides, each side being for one sheet of two pages.

Richard Rudolph, a faculty member who worked with Han, was interviewed by the UCLA Oral History Program.

These pamphlets, perhaps 5,000 in all, were produced 1648 - 1653, when Cardinal Mazarin assumed as much power over the French nobility and parliament as had the previously hated Cardinal Richelieu. Shown is the pamphlet giving them their name.

Posada worked for the publisher Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City. Posada developed the playful calavera ("skull") imagery associated with the Dias de los muertos (Days of the Dead) for political and general humorous uses. This particular image shows Vanegas Arroyo surrounded by the minutiae of printing: boxes for type and with calaveras operating the press. They are also shown with bottles of tequila and glasses, dice and other games of chance, a pistol, and flower blossoms. Posada's imagery influenced such artists as Diego Rivera in the 1920s and later Chicano artists in the U.S. in the 1960s as they reclaimed their artistic heritage.

Printings of "The Sotadic Zone" are oddities produced from Burton's translation of The One Thousand Nights and One Night. For the Benares Edition of the 1001 Nights, he wrote a "Terminal Essay," then repressed, but later often printed with this title. Another example in the Dept. is entitled Anthropological Notes on the Sotadic Zone of Sexual Inversion: Including Some Observations on Social and Sexual Relations of the Mohammedan Empire. (New York: Privately issued by Falstaff Press, ca. 1930?). This was not Burton's title at all, and he worked before there was a discipline called anthropology. But in this comparative essay he proposed a theory of same sex activity, supposedly more prevalent in areas of what he termed the Sotadic Zone, comprising many places where Burton himself traveled and lived. He defined these as primarily tropical, but areas such as Alaska were included, all "non Western." It is possible that some of this is to be taken tongue in cheek, although there is no certainty of it from his tone. Many later writers would refer to his ideas and research, for example, J. A. Symonds in Problem in Greek Ethics.