The paper deals with the issue of textbooks preserved in the historical collection of the State Scientific Library of Prešov which were published in the years 1801 and 1900. It presents Slovakia and Bohemia-related prints. Based on the heuristics, the paper focuses on a number of 31 prints divided by content into humanities (language and history textbooks, reading books), natural sciences (maths, biology and geography textbooks) and science and culture (music textbook). It also deals with individual authors of textbooks who were mostly teachers and owners and with specific features of prints from the perspective of the book culture research.