[2] Starting from 1908, Henri Joseph Oger spent his time in French Indochina doing work as a colonial volunteer until 1919.

[9] One incomplete copy is stored in the National Library of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Thư viện Quốc gia Việt Nam) in Hanoi, and the other copy which was well preserved and is currently being held at General Sciences Library of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thư viện Khoa học Tổng hợp Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh).

[9] In collaboration with École française d'Extrême-Orient (Vietnamese: Viện Viễn Đông Bác cổ Pháp) and General Sciences Library of Ho Chi Minh City, a republishing of Mechanics and Crafts of the People of Annam, was done in 2009.

In the first volume of the republished work, there is a section on the history of the manuscript and a list of illustrations with explanations in the three languages.

[10] The second contains a volume titled, "Introduction générale à l’étude des techniques annamites.

Essai sur la vie matérielle, les arts et industries du peuple d’Annam" (General introduction to the study of Annamite techniques.

[10] The original manuscript included writing in Literary Chinese, Vietnamese (written in chữ Nôm), and French.