Louis Figuier. The day after death, or, Our future life, according to science translated from the French of Louis Figuier. London: Richard Bentley, 1884.
(200 x 140 mm) pp. viii, 308 + plus publishers adds. Illustrated and decorated. New and cheap edition. Slightly foxed. Ownership inscriptions from 19th and early 20th c. Scotch tape intervention in front interior hinge, spine panel detatching. Corners bumped, endbands depressed. Good candidate for rebinding. Overall FAIR
The work attempts to explain the afterlife, the soul, and reincarnation through a "scientific" lens, exploring cosmology, the sun as a dwelling for souls, and the, "...re-incarnation of children who have died in infancy" and concepts of the soul's journey and future life through a scientific lens, in the context of 19th-century cosmology and spiritual beliefs