The Reports of Edward Coke - 1602

Sir Edward Coke was an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

A portrait of a brunette man in his 40s, with a brunette beard and mustache. He is wearing a shapeless black robe and a Jacobean ruff; to the right of his head is a coat of arms with a motto underneath it. On the bottom right of the portrait is a paragraph of indistinguishable text, while the entire picture is captioned "Given by the descendent Thomas William Coke 1780+".

Coke's Law Reports (a.k.a. Coke's Reports) were a collection of judgements from cases he had participated in, watched, or heard of. Contemporaries such as Theodore Plucknett, John Baker, and Francis Bacon praised the work's richness of detail, and foresaw the influence and importance of the reports. The reports were originally written into seven notebooks, four of which are lost.

This volume still has it's closure ties, though the cover does show extensive wear and tear. 

Full title in French:
Le second part des reportes del Edvvard Coke Lattorney Generall de Roigne de diuers matters en ley, auec grand & mature consideration resolue, & ... adiudge par deuant.

It appears the rest of the text is in Latin.

Though the cover shows some aging, as do the corners of pages, the text is still intact. This is pretty great considering this item is around 415 years old!