Systême tiré de l'Ecriture sainte sur la durée du monde, depuis le premier avènement de Jésus-Christ jusqu'à la fin des siècles

First edition of this speculative theological inquiry into the date of the end of time, based on scriptural data.

Contemporary full mottled fawn calf, spine in five raised bands richly gilt with fleuroned compartments, red morocco title label, loss to the headcap, joints split at head and foot and restored, some rubbing to the spine, covers framed with a blind fillet, marbled endpapers, gilt edges to the boards with a few nicks, red-speckled edges, corners worn, binding of the period.

A few pencilled markings and marginal annotations to certain passages, library stamp on the title page, a light dampstain to the upper edge of one leaf, not affecting the text. 

The author, a canon of Noyon, ultimately estimates the interval between the first and second coming of Jesus Christ at 2,401 years.

The dedicatee, Claude-Charles de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon (1695–1760), bishop of Noyon from 1731 to 1733, was a cousin (of the senior branch) of the celebrated memoirist.