C Ritter – a German Scientist and one of the founders of modern geography -  map of the Arabian Peninsula taken from his book Erd Kunde published in a number of volumes from 1818;  R Kiepert republished it in 1867. 

This is one of the earliest nineteenth century maps that defined and asserted Kuwait's borders and political entity. Indeed, it forms a distinguished existence in the north-eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula.