MANUSCRIPT. Notes Collected while attending The Artillery Depot of Instruction at Kirkee…[by]…Director of the Depot. [N.p.:] 1860-1861. 272pp., manuscript, folio (332 x 198mm.) Comprising 149pp. of text in a single legible hand, 53 full-page technical drawings of artillery, shells, 1 folding plate for a manuscript design of ‘9Pr.L.F. Carriage, B.R.P’ bound-in, approximately 30 blank leaves. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (wear at top of spine, scuffed, heavily rubbed). Note: comprises detailed instructions for officers joining the depot, and considerable technical detail on military hardware to accompany the drawings, also ‘Instructions on Pyrotechny’, the ‘Cutting and Setting of [] Fuzes’, ‘Laying Ordinances’, ‘Inspection of Ammunition’ and ‘Windage, its effect on a ‘Shots’ flight’. The barracks building in Kirkee, near Bombay (now returned to its pre-colonial name ‘Khadki’) still stands.