It's the official atlas to the voyage of the French explorer Nicolas Baudin. It's a huge, impressive looking book and the paper is crackly on account of being around 200 years old.

Nicolas-Martin Petit, 1802, South Cape, Tasmania. Watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil on paper. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Le Havre Both the Flinders and Baudin expeditions aimed to record ...

Flinders was hot on Baudin’s tail, hoping to map the as-yet-uncharted parts of the island-continent. In 1802, the pair would meet at a place now called Encounter Bay, in South Australia. The ...

Nicolas Baudin led the scientific expedition at the turn of the 19th century, a journey which included his now-famous encounter with English explorer Matthew Flinders in 1802, off the South ...

The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804 opens on June 30 at the South Australian Maritime Museum.

The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804 will be on display at the South Australian Maritime Museum until December 11, 2016.