A Group of Two Very Early Original Vintage Stereo Views

by Gustav Adolph Riemer

from Apia, Samoa, c. 1875-76.

Two stereo views with two vintage albumen prints each (c. 8.0 x 7.5 cm each).

These are pairwise mounted to four original studio cards (c. 8.5 x 17.7 cm each),

each with photographer´s credit, annotated and numbered on the mount.


As visible on the scans the stereo views are in a very nice and clean condition

with nice tones and only very small signs of use.

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Gustav Adolph Riemer (1842-1899), paymaster of the prussian warship S.M.S. Hertha,

took a series of early stereo views in Japan, China and  the Islands in the South Pacific

on the journey to East Asia (1874–1877),

which were published by J. F. Stiehm, Berlin in 1884.

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Literature:

Terry Bennett: History of Photography in China - Western Photographers 1861-1879; p. 327.