LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du voyage la recherche de La Perouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800]. 2 vols. 8o (197 x 127 mm) text, 2o (500 x 323 mm) atlas. Half-title in each text vol., atlas with engraved title, folding engraved world map and 43 engraved plates. (Text vols. slightly browned, engraved title in atlas foxed at edges, plate 36 slightly scraped.) Text in contemporary quarter calf gilt; atlas UNCUT and recased in nineteenth-century parchment over boards (text vols. with joints cracked, atlas with parchment spine slightly defective). FIRST EDITION, with text in octavo format (the text was simultaneously issued in quarto to match the Laperouse set). Ferguson 308; Hill II, p.469. [With:] LABILLARDIERE. Autograph letter signed. [N.p.] 5 September 1832, to an un-named supplier of life-enhancing or death-defying drugs, one page, 4o, a twelve-line note about medication written two years before his death in his eightieth year on the planet. (4)