
Carl Linnaeus letter sells for record price – most valuable Swedish letter ever auctioned9.6.2026 08:15:00 CEST | Stockholms Auktionsverk (ENG) | Press Release
The father of modern botany, Carl Linnaeus, set a new record at Stockholms Auktionsverk’s international auction, The Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale. His letter to the German physician and botanist Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, dated January 22, 1737, sold on Monday evening for SEK 1,875,000, establishing the highest final price ever achieved for a Swedish letter at auction in Sweden.
















