POLANSKI, Kazimierz and SEHNERT, James Allen.

Tall 8vo., original colour dust-wrapper, 239[i]pp.. In very good condition. Clean and tight. A little chipping to dust-wrapper edges. The Polabian Slavs were largely conquered by Saxons and Danes since the 9th century and were subsequently included and gradually assimilated within the Holy Roman Empire. The tribes were gradually Germanized and assimilated in the following centuries; the Sorbs are the only descendants of the Polabian Slavs to have retained their identity and culture.The Polabian language is now extinct. However, the two Sorbian languages are spoken by approximately 22,000-30,000 inhabitants[3] of the region and the languages are regarded by the government of Germany as official languages of the region.