{"id":9182,"date":"2019-07-24T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:23:21","slug":"whats-the-most-valuable-rare-book-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/07\/24\/whats-the-most-valuable-rare-book-in-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the most valuable\/rare book in here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072419-3.jpg\" alt=\"What's the most valuable\/rare book in here? What's its value\/rarity\/year published?\" class=\"wp-image-9172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072419-3.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072419-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072419-3-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072419-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>What&#8217;s the most valuable\/rare book in here? What&#8217;s its value\/rarity\/year published?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure it&#8217;s the rarest, but certainly the oldest: Jean Gerson\u2019s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage) from about 1470, in Burns Library.  Lots more info about it, and a link to the digital version, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook\">bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook<\/a>. As far as value goes, here&#8217;s a worthwhile answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-books-worth\">bit.ly\/bc-books-worth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure it&#8217;s the rarest, but certainly the oldest: Jean Gerson\u2019s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage) from about 1470, in Burns Library. Lots more info about it, and a link to the digital version, here: bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook. As far as value goes, here&#8217;s a worthwhile answer: bit.ly\/bc-books-worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[322,683,685,684],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-bc-libraries","tag-old","tag-rare","tag-valuable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9204,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}