RARE GAME OF HISTORICAL CARDS representing all the portraits of the Princes of the HOUSE OF SAVOIE, intended for the houses of education, colleges and boarding schools, to learn in a few days, by means of a board game, the history of the Monarchy of Savoy. DESSAIX, Joseph. 37 ON 40 playing cards (mm 92 x 60) bearing on the front the portrait in lith (lith. Krauer and Hiss, geneva) of a Prince of the House of Savoy, with essential biographical data, from Umberto I ' to Vittorio emanuele, VIII King of Sardinia (since March 1861 first king of Italy). Most of the portraits were drawn by F. Lips, copying them from the Gallery of Turin. On the back of the cards, lithographed in purple, is the Sabaud coat of arms. A didactic and pedagogical set of maps published at the time of the regrouping of Savoy in France and the completion of the unity of Italy. Dessaix was a prolific historical writer, author of various works on Savoy, sometimes extravagant and curious. The three missing maps are numbers 13 /17/32. Condition B (traces of handling).