Abstract: This thesis deals about the history of textbooks taking as the object of analysis the functioning of the circuit that was organized around them on the second half of the 19 th Century and the first decade of the 20 th Century in the Amazonian school context.The number of studies that takes book history and didactic editions as objects of research has been increasing in Brazil.It is in the interior of that production context that this work is inserted.For the development our research, we have used Robert Darnton's model of analysis in regard to the communication circuit made by the books in the different phases of their existence: production, diffusion and consumption.Working with different sources, the thesis showed some faces of textbook circuit in the State of Amazonas zeroing on some aspects not very well known, such as: the subjects, the practices and devices that were involved in the dynamics of textbook circuit.